How rare to find a film so expertly crafted while also being so playful in form and style. Undoubtedly, this will go down as Alice Rohrwacher's strongest effort.

| Mar 30, 2025

[Alice Rohrwacher] handles with vigor this bittersweet and semi-fantastic tale of lust and frustration...[Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 10, 2025

The best thing about La Chimera is that one can imagine (dream?) whatever one wants, because the director...is like a dealer who gives out cards so that one can play his game and do whatever one wants. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 17, 2025

Thanks to the remarkable work of Helene Louvart … the film constantly conveys a sense of transient reality, alternating earthly pragmatism with ghostly apparitions and a few fragments of visual poetry that embellish it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2025

As an English grave-robber in Italy, O'Connor is terrifically crafty.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2024

La Chimera unveils its secrets slowly, like an opening flower. Josh O'Connor's elusive protagonist is the chimera – an illusion who is just out of our reach. We can project our own dreams and desires onto him, even if he is not made for our human eyes.

| Nov 13, 2024

Not just Arthur, the film itself is immersed in the past.

| Nov 12, 2024

It’ll make you want to live more boldly, love more intensely and appreciate the beauty in everything that surrounds you.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 20, 2024

[La Chimera] plays like a fairy tale and a bit of a caper, but O’Connor adds depth to this conflicted man who isn’t sure if he wants to start a new chapter of life or stay frozen in his grief.

| Oct 5, 2024

La Chimera is the simpler, wiser, and newer film, with a more intimate connection to a larger, deeper past...

| Sep 16, 2024

Beautifully enigmatic & mysterious… I was swept up in the beguiling world of La Chimera. Josh O’Connor delivers a sublime performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2024

... That’s just the kind of improbably original, rousing, moving, fascinating film this is.

| Aug 19, 2024

Rohrwacher’s film has all the trappings of great European arthouse cinema from the 1960s and 1970s.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 25, 2024

Josh O’Connor is magnificent giving off a cool exterior while anguishing on the inside, losing himself in this dangerous yet exhilarating world. This further cements Alice Rohrwacher as a filmmaker of the highest order a singular talent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2024

One more tomb awaits Arthur, and you need to see the movie to learn what happens there. Actually, even when you’ve seen it you won’t be quite sure, because several fascinating interpretations of the events are possible. Judge ye.

| May 31, 2024

Poetic, mischievous, perfectly formed [...] Half fairytale, half heist, the film is a chimera in its own right, a hybrid consisting of parts that usually would not fit, but seem to exist together on screen, seamlessly.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 29, 2024

Rohrwacher’s trademark magical realism has us interpreting events as they unfold. The less you know about the plot, the better. It’s the kind of film that keeps shapeshifting as it goes along. The experience is damn-near transfixing.

| Original Score: B+ | May 25, 2024

Rohrwacher belongs to a generation of new filmmakers who embraces the traditional film technology & storytelling techniques which is abundantly displayed in La Chimera. But what makes her films unique is her modern sensibility.

| May 21, 2024

Rohrwacher rarely gives us any details or history of her characters, but there’s also a disarming honesty to the film’s ability to exist purely in the here and now.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 21, 2024

In this journey, between the universe of the living and the sensory connection with the world of the dead, the poetics of magical realism is present. Consequently, the presence of the sensory is part of the protagonist's perception of reality...

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 21, 2024