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If magical realist elements aren't your thing, La Chimera may not work for you. Otherwise, this movie is frustrating, haunting, and incredibly sad by its end. It's a period piece (80s) about a group of tomb robbers led by Josh O'Connor's Arthur who has a gift for divining tomb locations but has just been released from prison for his inability to avoid police in this theft/illegal sales racket. His emotionally ever-present girlfriend, Beniamina, is nowhere to be seen; her family doesn't know what happened to her even as everyone else involved with Arthur and Arthur himself seems to. There's a sort of resolution at the film's end. It's quite fitting, I think.