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Michael Wood · At the Movies: ‘La Chimera’

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Your 10-digit subscription number is above your name on the address slip and begins with 400. If you subscribed via the website, you can enter the order number from your subscription confirmation email in place of your subscription number. More search Options Browse by Subject ‘J udge ye,’ Ezra Pound says of a character in one of his poems, ‘Have I dug him up again?’ One answer is obviously yes. In ‘Sestina: Altaforte’, the old troubadour Bertran de Born – with his ‘whoreson dogs’ and ‘hell blot black’ – is as alive as any written character can be, and more alive than many of Pound’s actual contemporaries. But what about some of the parallel or related questions? When do we dig up the dead, and how? Can they be robbed? What if their deadness is final, and that’s all we need to know, or can know? The characters in Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera have considerable investments in these questions but all have very different takes. Some of them recognise superstition when they se

Vol. 46 No. 10 · 23 May 2024 At the Movies ‘La Chimera’ Michael Wood Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 1319 words 'J udge ye ,' Ezra Pound says of a character in one of his poems, 'Have I dug him up again?' One answer is obviously yes. In 'Sestina: Altaforte', the old troubadour Bertran de Born - with his 'whoreson dogs' and 'hell blot black' - is as alive as any written character can be, and more alive than many of Pound's actual contemporaries. But what about some of the parallel or related questions? When do we dig up the dead, and how? Can they be robbed? What if their d

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