Chimera, La (2023) review

English "archeologist" Arthur (Josh O'Connor), distraught over his missing girlfriend Beniamina (Yile Vianello), begrudgingly returns to a village in Tuscany where he reconnects with frail Flora (Isabella Rossellini) and, using a "divining rod" (which is pseudoscience, by the way), "detects" and digs up buried treasure with the assistance of loyal friends ... that is, until he gets outsmarted by Frida (Alba Rohrwacher).  It's definitely possible to make a good feature with a perpetually cranky, disheveled and immoral lead, but Rohrwacher must have skipped that day of film school: Arthur's surliness is alienating and the movie is prone to too many "flights of fancy" - she tries paying homage to her predecessors by speeding up the frame rates and occasionally flipping the camera around (Arthur is apparently "The Hanged Man" from tarot), but the final product is neither cohesive nor captivating.  It's rare for me to spend the bulk of the running time desperately hoping for the authorities (in this case, the Carabinieri) to apprehend the main character and pals ... but alas my wish was not granted.