LA CHIMERA Movie Review | Josh O'Connor | Isabella Rossellini | Neon

[@rogerbell8429]

This was superb. Josh O'Connor gives an incredible performance. He's bad-tempered and sullen but he has an inward determination to find those graves with treasure and he softens as the film goes on. I loved the little touches from the director - speeding the frames of the film up when the looters are escaping from the local police, the crazy dancing from the 'maid' at the outdoor party, Josh O'Connor looking straight at the camera, the sisters talking over the top of each other while trying to persuade their mother to part with items from her house. Everything adds up to a very special movie.

[@zxbc1]

Josh O'Connor was also in Mothering Sunday, God's Own Country and Only You, and was on Doctor Who and Peaky Blinders too. He's quickly becoming one of my favorite British actors as he isn't obviously handsome, macho or charismatic, but his slight demeanor and incredibly subtle action sometimes steals the show wherever he appears.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

He's always good!

[@angelthman1659]

A note that the word would be pronounced kee-mera in Italian. It's a direct translation from the Greek Chimera, used and pronounced in English as kai-meera. It's means any monster in Greek mythology, and colloquially used to mean a grotesque monster.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Well that’s not how they pronounce it in the film.

[@angelthman1659]

@@BreakfastAllDay If you look at the Deadline Hollywood interview on yt, the director pronounces it kee-mera. That's also how it's pronounced in Italian dictionaries.

[@guglielmolatini184]

@@BreakfastAllDay I'm Italian and trust me, that's how they pronounce it in the film, maybe you misheard it. No Italian-speaking person would say "cheemera", it's not such an uncommon word in the Italian language.

[@TIconOA]

I saw this last year at my local film fest, where all I knew going in was that it was in competition at Cannes. I need to make an effort to see other Rohrwacher movies because I really enjoyed this. Surprisingly funny and suspenseful, and something that becomes more endearing the more you let it wash over you. Hope it finds an audience now that it has a wider release.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Surprisingly poignant at the end too! Glad you saw it.

[@nevetsny1]

She also directed a couple of episodes of My Brilliant Friend. L’Amica Geniale. Great show. And book quartet.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Good to know thank you!

[@guest_informant]

Can we get some love for Italia. Italia and her ironing. Seen this film three times. Would happily see it again. Wonderful. Beautiful.

[@thefilmseeker]

The last movie I saw in Cannes last year, and a perfect way to end the fest. Nobody is making movies like Rohrwacher right now.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Such a specific voice!

[@angelthman1659]

Really? Nobody's making plotless, boring movies? They're all over 😉

[@OldBluesChapterandVerse]

I’ve seen her Happy as Lazzaro and Corpo Celeste, both of which are exceptional. Rohrwacher has become one of the emergent filmmakers about whom I’m most excited, along with the likes of David Lowery and Robert Eggers. Can’t wait to see La Chimera, but, living in Wyoming, “wait” is what I’ll have to do.

[@LEOIAMLEOONYOUTUBE]

I absolutely loved this movie, and it's easily my first movie this year to go into my top 10! Thanks for this review you guys! ❤️

[@AXXXXA]

The cinematographer did The Lost Daughter also. The outdoor dance party reminded me of The Lost Daughters dance scene immediately. This movie was incredible.

[@Psyfoob]

Speaking of a master storyteller who can move us where they want when we think we know what’s coming, I did not see the cast iron skillet ad coming. 🤣 I was like, “Okay, here comes Coffee Bros”, and then PLOT TWIST.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Ha, we're here to keep you on your toes!

[@wexwuthor1776]

That feeling when your childhood years qualify as a period piece. Yeesh

[@tlovehater]

That hurt a little lol.

[@annschmitt2909]

Not to complain……but your pronunciation of “Chimera” is like the Spanish. Ch is a K sound in Italian…..

[@heilmann18]

I watched this the other day and I thought it was fine, but then after a while it started to sink in and damn that movie is incredible.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

It's sort of hypnotic, isn't it?

[@junipernelsjensen]

Ok this is definitely a movie that benefits from smoking a joint before

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Hmm, that’s not how we watched it, but have fun!

[@adolfohernandez720]

El arqueólogo ingles de temperamento flematico viaja a Italia a unirse con un grupo de buscadores de quimeras..con un poder que le hace encontrar piezas antiguas arqueológicas emprender su viaje en busca de quimeras. Divertida actuación de personajes estrafalarios y románticos. Es una película de mis preferidas aquí en México.

[@mrsperfectlyfine450]

anyone else been slowing trying to see every one of alonso’s books behind him? i’ll get em all someday 😈

[@BreakfastAllDay]

That'll be a challenge because they're not always the same!

[@jmil843]

This was a better Indiana Jones movie than the last two lol

[@commandZee]

Arthouse and tacos... ❤Tuesdays!

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Gotta love Arthouse Tuesday.

[@diegosanto7756]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the themes the movie addresses. I'm wondering if the American audience, who may not know any language beyond English and would call the movie "la sheemera", came up to understand who's Italia's chatacter, for instance.

[@alessandrabonatti7228]

It's not la chimera as in ch in Spanish - it's La Kimera

[@BreakfastAllDay]

Yes, thank you.

[@jonwesick2844]

primo

[@Lucky_Patrick]

This movie was absolute garbage borefest

[@polisherci]

if you’re making a living off of reviewing movies, at least learn how to pronounce the name. it’s not CHI mera, the english language has the word chimera so idk why the lady was so confused. and i don’t think she really even understood the movie. the made the most generic comments. If it wasn’t for the guy i’d leave the video at the start.

[@BreakfastAllDay]

You're so sweet to stick with us, thank you for watching.

[@angelthman1659]

I guess this is when you guys put on your critics hats and recommend boring movies to your followers 😉Come on, guys, this is a meandering, plotless mess. We never get a sense of the characters. The point of art/indie movies is to be about characters and not about action/cgi like Hollywood fare. But here character development is almost non-existent. Instead we get a lot of walking (I call them 'Walking Around' movies), and song performances that explain the plot that should have been explained in the screenplay. And as I said previously, it's pronounced Kee-mera, not Chi-mera. See the director's interview on Deadline Hollywood.

[@jasoncarrick5461]

Meh, subtitles...pass....lol

[@andreitarkovsky3214]

😂😂😂😂