La Chimera: Alice Rohrwacher populates her film with an intriguing group of people, grave robbers who look for relics in old cemeteries to sell them to a dealer. Josh O’Connor plays one of them, an Englishman who seems to have supernatural powers in finding the best place to dig; he is a romantic and melancholic man, still in love with a woman who seems to be away; it is an interesting portrait. Carol Duarte plays effectively a foreign musical student who is for all practical purposes a maid. All characters are dreamers, chasing or hoping for impossible things; the small-time crooks, however, are not particularly interesting or engaging, making it hard to get emotionally connected. Still, the film flows nicely, never dragging, and editor Nelly Quettier uses a few quaint stylistic touches here and there. It goes around Italy in a permanent struggle between the old and the new, captured by cinematographer Hélène Louvart.