Alice Rohrwacher is an unusual filmmaker, comparable only to her compatriot Pietro Marcello. She is trying to revive on her own terms the poetic and humanist legacy of the Italian neorealist tradition.
Her dreamlike images move between the sacred and the earthly with the vital fatality of the martyr Pasolini ("I will leave in a verse"), the street tenderness of Fellini in La strada, and the revolution of kindness that Rossellini proclaimed in La minstrel of God. The adventure of young Arthur (a great Josh O'Connor in his helpless purity) in the eighties, when young Arthur wakes up on a returning train, in the middle of a strange dream that places him beyond immediate reality. A romantic hero who suffers the loss of his love and who, obsessed with death and funerary art, survives with a group of tomb looters who deal in Etruscan tombs. The director of 'Happy Lazzaro' introduces us to the tragic troupe of tomb looters in an exceptional film starring the great Josh O'Connor.