Something Good #109: Gestures

I can always tell right away when something is going to be for me, or “Mark-coded” as friend of the newsletter Sarah G. put it recently. And from the opening moments of Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera , I knew I would fall in love with this film. 1 The movie begins on a train somewhere in Italy, where an unhappy Englishman, Arthur (Josh O’Connor) in a dirty white suit is being interrogated by a…