The director of Happy as Lazzaro, Alice Rohrwacher, presents her latest film, La Chimera, which revolves around the community of ‘tombarolo’ or tomb robbers in a village located in the Tuscan region of Italy. The director pays homage to Federico Fellini’s mural excavation scene in Roma (1972). Young British archaeologist Arthur (Josh O’Connor, who played Prince Charles in The Crown) returns to the village to retrieve memories of a woman he once loved. He possesses the ability to sense where artifacts lie beneath the ground. The film follows Arthur’s journey, lost between dreams and reality. Could the gigantic chimera statue he discovers in an Etruscan tomb be related to his vanished former lover? With La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher has completed a romantic film about a man seeking love that transcends death and time. (SEO Seunghee)