@@gemmachaos I think Craig was happy doing Bond up to Skyfall, he even said Skyfall felt like it wrapped up everything he wanted to do with the character. Then they made him come back for spectre which had an awful script and he broke his leg. Then his last film was also a bit of a disaster behind the scenes.
Absolutely loved this film as I have all Alice Rohrwachers work, Happy as Lazzaro is still my personal fav she's definitely one of my favorite filmmakers working today
@@simondavis8634 haha no one big active anymore sadly. Huge blindspot. I love Ebert but obviously he’s not with us anymore. I’m open for suggestions though!
Loved the caper aspect, but the Orpheus aspect never really touched me. I kept thinking about All of Us Strangers. Still, a very good film. I loved Vincenzo Nemolato as the most Italian of scoundrels.
Ex-con, down and outs, grave robbers, criminals. Why was i watching this? Then, is it just gonna end with a sudden stupid calamity? But within those few final minutes i realised it all came perfectly together with one of the most beautiful, joyful, surprising endings I''ve ever seen at the cinema. Next stop was to go to ashmoleum museum to see exhibition on flemish drawings. They were exquisite but for 2 hours sequences from the film kept coming to the front of my thoughts. I had to drive 70 miles to the curzon cinema showing this film. Im glad I did. I do value mark kermode's thoughts. I also keep thinking about being homeless in italy and what you have to do to survive. Thank you Mark.
Anyone familiar with Robert McKee will recognise this story as a non-plot structure. I, too, struggled to 'get into it'. However, the experience of gingerly wading through and ultimately tying the story with earlier visuals and seemingly irrelevant action felt rewarding.
I knew nothing about this film except Josh O'Connor being in it when I went to see it a couple hours ago, to the point where I was surprised it was actually in Italian and I too struggled to get into it I guess but I really resonated with your comment here. The ending still haunts me but yet I think it was the most satisfying ending it could have had. I was so moved and scared at the same time that two single tears rolled from my eyes as the credits came up, the feeling it left me with is very hard to describe
@@marla0412 I understand your perspective. It was almost an etherial experience and definitely has a resonance that I believe would gain further impact upon rewatching. Especially going back, knowing the context of Josh's character. That ending was melancholic and truly beautiful.
@@ThisisDaniel (SPOILER) Very true! If you don't mind me asking, do you think those guys he was with at the end buried him there on purpose? After he got stuck underground they kept shouting his name but obviously made no real effort to dig him out. I just can't make up my mind on this because I can't think of a real motive why they would want him gone so bad
@@marla0412 SPOILER Sorry I missed this reply. I think the burial was intentional. If you recall, they were working on behalf of the dealer - whom he'd shafted earlier in the film when he tossed the head overboard. It was a calculated act of revenge, in my opinion.
Personally found it insufferable. I can cope with disjointed and incoherent if in the service of something meaningful, but the message of the film seemed trite and kitsch. That the human made artefacts are somehow ‘not for human eyes’ - there’s just something false about it. The bizarre ending didn’t feel earned, more like a self indulgent student project. The film and its praise irritate me.
Josh O'Connor would make a very different and very memorable Bond.
I can see him as a George Lazenby type (but in a good way lol). A more gentle and romantic side to him.
Not sure why he’d go for it
After how much and how publicly Craig hated every second of being Bond, who would be foolish enough to take it up?
@@gemmachaos I think Craig was happy doing Bond up to Skyfall, he even said Skyfall felt like it wrapped up everything he wanted to do with the character. Then they made him come back for spectre which had an awful script and he broke his leg. Then his last film was also a bit of a disaster behind the scenes.
I was thinking the exact same thing while watching.
Another in a series of wildly creative films. So glad I saw it.
Absolutely loved this film as I have all Alice Rohrwachers work, Happy as Lazzaro is still my personal fav she's definitely one of my favorite filmmakers working today
Love this channel check in from NC USA every week.
Same but from FL.
Which film critics do you listen to in the States?
@@simondavis8634 haha no one big active anymore sadly. Huge blindspot. I love Ebert but obviously he’s not with us anymore. I’m open for suggestions though!
Josh Connor is the most upcoming actor! La Chimera is a italian movie with Connor acting in a remarkable way
You had me at Isabella Rossellini.
The opening scene of La Dolce Vita. It's not a nod to Fellini, they're shouting and singing his name from the esplanades :-)
La Chimera is a beautiful, beautiful picture, also thanks to Josh O'Connor majestic interpretation. I hope he will work again with Alice Rohrwarcher.
Saw this yesterday and loved every mad minute of it my husband wanted to leave and wait in the car…..!
Loved the caper aspect, but the Orpheus aspect never really touched me. I kept thinking about All of Us Strangers. Still, a very good film. I loved Vincenzo Nemolato as the most Italian of scoundrels.
Fantastic film
Ex-con, down and outs, grave robbers, criminals. Why was i watching this? Then, is it just gonna end with a sudden stupid calamity?
But within those few final minutes i realised it all came perfectly together with one of the most beautiful, joyful, surprising endings I''ve ever seen at the cinema. Next stop was to go to ashmoleum museum to see exhibition on flemish drawings. They were exquisite but for 2 hours sequences from the film kept coming to the front of my thoughts. I had to drive 70 miles to the curzon cinema showing this film. Im glad I did. I do value mark kermode's thoughts. I also keep thinking about being homeless in italy and what you have to do to survive. Thank you Mark.
a bit of Beat the Devil?
Anyone familiar with Robert McKee will recognise this story as a non-plot structure.
I, too, struggled to 'get into it'. However, the experience of gingerly wading through and ultimately tying the story with earlier visuals and seemingly irrelevant action felt rewarding.
I knew nothing about this film except Josh O'Connor being in it when I went to see it a couple hours ago, to the point where I was surprised it was actually in Italian and I too struggled to get into it I guess but I really resonated with your comment here. The ending still haunts me but yet I think it was the most satisfying ending it could have had. I was so moved and scared at the same time that two single tears rolled from my eyes as the credits came up, the feeling it left me with is very hard to describe
@@marla0412 I understand your perspective. It was almost an etherial experience and definitely has a resonance that I believe would gain further impact upon rewatching. Especially going back, knowing the context of Josh's character.
That ending was melancholic and truly beautiful.
@@ThisisDaniel (SPOILER) Very true! If you don't mind me asking, do you think those guys he was with at the end buried him there on purpose? After he got stuck underground they kept shouting his name but obviously made no real effort to dig him out. I just can't make up my mind on this because I can't think of a real motive why they would want him gone so bad
@@marla0412 SPOILER Sorry I missed this reply. I think the burial was intentional. If you recall, they were working on behalf of the dealer - whom he'd shafted earlier in the film when he tossed the head overboard. It was a calculated act of revenge, in my opinion.
Memorable, yes, but also needlessly opaque in places.
Dull
I enjoyed the film, but I don't understand why an archeologist would join this group of people (tombaroli) who desecrate art.
Would this lose anything by being just "Kermode's Take'?...
it’s a Penn and Teller situation
Yes, something would be lost
Personally found it insufferable. I can cope with disjointed and incoherent if in the service of something meaningful, but the message of the film seemed trite and kitsch. That the human made artefacts are somehow ‘not for human eyes’ - there’s just something false about it. The bizarre ending didn’t feel earned, more like a self indulgent student project. The film and its praise irritate me.