Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera (La Chimera, 2023), the director’s fourth feature, opens with a young woman’s face, her glow, her blondeness. Part of the screen is dark, the frame transversally bisected. The shot is a shard of light, a memory retrieved from the recesses of the mind. The image is miraculous, real, yet vanishing with…
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