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Arrivederci, La Chimera at IFC Center
The real song of the summer was the film’s 25-week theatrical run.
It’s all but certain that you can see Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession or Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal on an odd Tuesday, and in 2021, Film Forum played Jacques Deray’s La Piscine for 14 weeks as the summer stretched into fall. Rarely do new releases stick around for very long — often edged out by waning interest or new 4K restorations of older films — until Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, which just concluded its 25-week run at the West Village’s IFC Center on September 19. That the film celebrates memory, history, and art all at once made it a fitting staple of the summer’s repertory scene, and suggests, perhaps, that someday someone will dig up their old ticket stub and feel like they’ve stumbled on buried treasure.
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