'La Chimera' review: Josh O'Connor goes tomb raiding in this magical film

In Alice Rohrwacher's La Chimera, the past is so close you can almost touch it. In fact, many characters do.

The film's central band of Italian tomb robbers — or tombaroli — regularly pillage gravesites peppered throughout the Tuscan countryside. They physically force historical artifacts into the present, transporting them from their longtime homes of soil and stone to buildings of glass and steel, where they'll be sold to the highest bidder.

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