‘La chimera’: everything you’d want in an Italian film
Life and Art from FT Weekend
Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're talking about 'La chimera', directed by Alice Rohrwacher and starring Josh O'Connor and Isabella Rossellini. The film follows a band of graverobbers on a quest for Etruscan treasures. But there's also a darker, more melancholy plot that makes you question what’s real and what’s symbolism. The FT's global head of audio Cheryl Brumley and audience engagement journalist Marianna Giusti join guest host Katya Kumkova to hash out what it all means.
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Links (all FT links get you past the paywall):
– The FT’s four-star review of La chimera, by Danny Leigh: https://on.ft.com/3UZLo6z
– An interview with filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher, by Simran Hans: https://on.ft.com/3WEiUk3
– For more Italian summer content, check out Mari Giusti’s ‘Postcard from Sicily’: https://on.ft.com/3K8TZgM
– Cheryl Brumley is on X @cherylbrumley. Marianna Giusti is @maupippa.
More or Less:
– Cheryl wants more Eurovision
– Katya wants to see more smell art. Check out this piece on The Met exhibition ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’: https://on.ft.com/3wu62lY
– Mari wants more Isabella Rossellini, and recommends ‘Green Porno’. Here’s Rossellini’s Lunch with the FT from 2018: https://on.ft.com/4bERe2D
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| 0:00.0 | This is Life and Art from F.T. Weekend. I'm Katya Kumkova. I'm in for Lila Raptopoulos, and this is our Friday chat show. |
| 0:11.3 | Today we're talking about La Camara, a movie directed by Aliche Roar Walker and starring Josh O'Connor and Isabella Rossellini. |
| 0:19.1 | It's a story about a band of Italian grave robbers who are out to |
| 0:22.7 | steal a Truscan treasure. But its main focus is on the band's English leader, Arthur, who has the |
| 0:28.8 | gift of knowing when he's close to something worth looting. The best way I can describe this movie, |
| 0:34.4 | though, is to say it's an Italian film that has everything you want |
| 0:38.7 | in an Italian film. There are a couple of love plots. There are melancholy troubadours. There's a |
| 0:45.4 | beach dancing scene that could almost be in a Fellini movie. So let's get into it. I'm Katia. I'm the show's |
| 0:52.4 | senior producer, and I'm hiding a couple of children at the place where I'm pretending to work. I'm Katia. I'm the show's senior producer and I'm hiding a couple of children at the place |
| 0:55.9 | where I'm pretending to work. With me today in our London studio is the FT's head of audio, Cheryl Brumley. |
| 1:03.0 | She's looking to appraise some loot today. Hi, Cheryl. Hi. Hi. Hopefully you will get you |
| 1:09.8 | something nice and expensive. |
| 1:11.5 | Please. |
| 1:13.5 | And also in London, it's Italia herself, audience engagement journalist Mariana Juisti. |
| 1:20.2 | Welcome, Mari. |
| 1:21.2 | Hi, Katia. |
| 1:22.3 | Hi, hi, hi, hi. |
| 1:24.1 | Okay, so let's get into it. |
| 1:26.2 | What did we think about the movie? |
| 1:27.7 | Did we like it? |
| 1:28.5 | Did we hate it? |
| 1:29.8 | Cheryl, why don't we start with you? |
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