– Josh O’Connor dazzles in brilliant tale of Italian tomb-raiders

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Torn between lost love and a gang of rowdy grave-robbers, the actor digs deep for one of his finest performances in Alice Rohrwacher’s dazzling caper

is on right now. Anyone who has failed to grasp his formidable range should treat themselves to a double bill of his current films: see him dangerously driven and fiercely charismatic in tennis shorts in, and a frayed, wounded O’Connor performance that ranks among his very finest to date.

As Arthur, a renegade British archaeologist in 1980s Tuscany, O’Connor plays his character as a man adrift and disconnected from the world. In his ghostly, off-white suit, its grubby linen the colour of a recently disinterred shroud, Arthur looks like a fallen angel from a Caravaggio painting.

There’s something about the folkloric quality of Rohrwacher’s films, their embrace of a kind of earth magic, that prompts people to describe them as fairytales. But this is perhaps misleading.is no twinkly escapist fantasy, it’s a film full of grit, thorns and greed. The third instalment of a loose trilogy about Italian identity, the film shows a country in which history asserts itself, but which has a careless relationship with its legacy and landscape.

The film’s riches come from Rohrwacher’s seemingly inexhaustible wealth of ideas: the tactile, textural quality that results from dipping into different film stocks ; the sped-up footage that defuses the intensity of Arthur’s anger at his friends; the use of an itinerant balladeer to narrate chunks of the story.

 

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