La Chimera: Sunday, June 9
Admission $5
Showings @ 2pm and 5pm
Discussion following the 2pm show
Comedy/Drama, Italian, 2 hour 10 minutes
Written and Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes inside the earth — in search of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera.
“Ultimately, the problem dramatised here is the same one faced by any modern artist: how do you retain a meaningful link to your predecessors while shaping something new? Rohrwacher’s answer is the film itself.” — The Age (Australia)
“One of the pleasures of Rohrwacher’s filmmaking is the way she subtly blurs our sense of time. La Chimera is set in the 1980s, but it could be taking place 20 years earlier, or 20 years later.” — NPR
Douglass Theatre
355 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Macon, Georgia 31201
Films are presented the second Sunday of each month at 2pm and 5pm, with a discussion following the 2pm show. Documentaries are quarterly on Tuesdays at 7:30pm. Tickets are $5.00 at the Douglass Theatre in downtown Macon.