At times, it feels as though it has emerged — dusty, tattered, and beautiful — from the storied earth of Italy itself.

Bilge Ebiri

New York Magazine (Vulture)

La Chimera is a film that utterly occupies its own fictional space; it expresses its eccentric romance in its own fluent movie dialect. I was utterly captivated by this sad, lovelorn adventure.

Peter Bradshaw

The Guardian

O’Connor’s exquisite performance seems to channel Harry Dean Stanton’s haunted turn in “Paris, Texas”; less wraith-like in its physicality, but similarly intangible, like a man being played by his own shadow.