Few filmmakers find space for the earthy and the fantastical with the assurance of Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro). The Italian auteur delivers another mythically-tinged picaresque, lit up this time by Josh O’Connor as a dodgy but charming British archeologist – a Graham Greene character in a dirt-stained suit – on the hunt for Etruscan treasures with a band of colourful grave robbers. Shot through with surrealist beauty and grubby opportunism, La Chimera is a jalopy ride through rural 1980s Lazio, with narrative bumps and hairpins to lend a sense of the unexpected, and views to match.
