La Chimera (2023) Italy,
Written and Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
Thursday May 15
Sir Robert Helman Theatre
Doors Open: 6.30pm
Story centers on Arthur, a renegade British Archeologist in 1980’s Tuscany. Arthur (Josh O’Connor) is a young man in an old soul, adrift and disconnected from the world. Torn between his lost love and a gang of rowdy grave robbers.
“Josh
O’Connor digs deep for one of his finest performances in Alice Rohrwackers glorious
Italian language film.” The Guardian.
Arthur
reluctantly inhabits the present but is drawn to the past, the distant past and
the beauty of ancient artefacts that he hawks to collectors. He is also enchanted by a more recent past
and the memory of a lost love Beniamina.
“ In his
ghostly off white suit, its grubby linen the colour of a recently disinterred
shroud, Arthur looks like a fallen angel from a Caravaggio painting.”
Wendy Ide, The
Guardian
Wine themes:
Raiding tombs for lost treasures from the past.
This month's wines are all treasures from the Reels Wine selections from previous months.
