When you get to know and understand love, it is hard to think of it as something other than life itself. All the main characters of La Chimera are enslaved by their chimeras, their impossible fantasies and fixations, and some of them even go the extra mile of disturbing dead Etruscans in the desperate attempt to fulfill thm. Arthur is in a sort of limbo for the duration of the whole film, trying to figure out how to come back to life, how to have life, love, dream and death finally converge. Alice Rohrwacher tells us that there is more to life than what meets the eye, and she makes Arthur gradually come to this conclusion himself: some things are not meant for human eyes to see, not for now anyway.
Review of La Chimera
