LA CHIMERA

The word Chimera has a number of meanings, the most relevant one here being “a strange or impossible dream or figment of the imagination.”  The film centres on O’Connor’s fine portrayal of Arthur, a frayed and wounded character, adrift and disconnected from the world. Arthur reluctantly inhabits the present but is continually drawn to the past and the beauty of ancient artefacts, but also to the recent past and an elusive time of happiness with his lost love Beniamena.  An audacious and thrilling film where the lines between fantasy and reality, the visible and invisible, truth and lies, are blurred and capricious.