Alice Rohrwacher
When we talk about "movie magic," the first thing that comes to mind is often something like the bikes achieving liftoff in "E.T." But it applies no less to Alice Rohrwacher's wondrous "La Chimera," a grubbily transcendent folk tale of a film that finds its enchantment buried in the ground....
To the Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher, "fairy tale" is an often misunderstood concept. For many, it suggests kings and queens, a light kind of fantasy.
But Rohrwacher is devoted to — "obsessed with" she says — the tradition of Italian fairy and folk tales, which tend to feature...
Spike Lee, Hirokazu Koreeda, and Alice Rohrwacher, among others, will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival. Their latest films, all shot on KODAK film, will make their debut at Cannes. A total of thirteen films--captured on KODAK 35mm or 16mm Motion Picture Film...