Josh O’Connor in Alice Rohrwacher’s Lyrical Drama – The Hollywood Reporter

: (Competition): Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte, , Alba Rohrwacher, Vincenzo Nemolato: Alice Rohrwacher Venue Cast Director-screenwriter 2 hours 10 minutes The title refers to unattainable dreams and illusory promises, which for these looters of history is the prospect of striking it rich with one major find that will set them all up for life.The chimera of the Englishman Arthur (Josh O’Connor) is Beniamina, the woman he loved and lost, who haunts his dreams.makes movies like no one else.Rohrwacher makes movies you sink into rather than watch dispassionately, taking time to establish the milieu as her characters and stories reveal themselves in layers.

It’s there that Beniamina’s physically frail but still formidable mother, Flora (Isabella Rossellini), lives in a crumbling villa with an unpaid housekeeper, Italia (Carol Duarte), who believes she’s working in exchange for vocal lessons even if la signora freely concedes that she’s tone deaf.Plus, it allows for the introduction of a slippery character played with nasty gusto by the director’s sister and frequent collaborator, Alba Rohrwacher.