Josh O’Connor is a grave robber in this dreamy Italian romance
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher. Starring Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Isabella Rossellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Yile Vianello.“The Englishman.” Appropriately folkloric, that’s what a troubadour in 1980s Italy dubs Arthur in song. The exploits of the Englishman Arthur and his misfit friends are ripe for mythologizing: They’re tombaroli, or grave robbers, digging in secret for ancient artifacts they can sell on the black market.
Newly released from a short stint in prison – their pillaging of long-lost Etruscan tombs is illegal, after all – Arthur reluctantly returns to this merry band of thieves at film’s beginning. Arthur is not the tombaroli’s leader; he’s more like the talent. Divining rod in hand, he has a preternatural intuition about where to dig. Is it because his purpose is higher? He is trying to find a way to the afterlife, a tether to his lost love Beniamina .
Does Arthur really believe he and Beniamina can somehow reconcile? Hard to say: Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s fourth narrative feature – a soft kiss of magical realism here, a Keystone Cops caper there – is dreamily disorienting. On his dowsing rambles, Arthur falls to his feet when he senses buried treasure, in a literal swoon.
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