Just out of jail, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.

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Film Cast:

• Arthur: Josh O’Connor
• Italia: Carol Duarte
• Spartaco: Alba Rohrwacher
• Flora: Isabella Rossellini
• Pirro: Vincenzo Nemolato
• Melodie: Lou Roy-Lecollinet
• Jerry: Giuliano Mantovani
• Mario: Gian Piero Capretto
• Melchiorre: Melchiorre Pala
• Fabiana: Ramona Fiorini
• Il portuale: Luca Gargiullo
• Beniamina: Yle Vianello
• Nella: Barbara Chiesa
• Vera: Elisabetta Perotto
• Rossa: Chiara Pazzaglia
• Sista: Francesca Carrain
• Katir: Luciano Vergaro
• Carabiniere: Carlo Tarmati
• Cantastorie: Valentino Santagati
• Cantastorie: Piero Crucitti
• Spalletta: Milutin Dapčević
• Cico il tossico: Luca Chikovani
• Colombina: Julia Vella
• Agnese: Agnese Graziani
• Controllore: Alessandro Genovesi
• Venditore ambulante: Cristiano Piazzati
• Sofia: Sofia Stangherlin
• Ragazza dal profilo etrusco: Marianna Pantani
• Alexandra: Maria Alexandra Lungu
• Rospo: Paolo Bizzarri
• Gatto: Claudio Fabbri
• Volpe: Monaldo Gazzella
• Sofija: Sofija Zobina
• Silvia: Silvia Lucarini
• Zio di Jerry: Pancrazio Capretto
• Figlia maggiore di Nella: Elisabetta Anella
• Figlia minore di Nella: Maddalena Baiocco
• Leila: Leila Nuniz
• Signora veterinario: Giulia Caccavello
• Pastore: Franco Barzi
• Vigile baracca: Fabrizio Pierini
• Vigile baracca: Andrea Pettirossi
• Assistente di Spartaco: Maria Pia Clementi
• Hostess 2: Anna DeLuca

Film Crew:

• Writer: Alice Rohrwacher
• Director of Photography: Hélène Louvart
• Producer: Carlo Cresto-Dina
• Editor: Nelly Quettier
• Costume Designer: Loredana Buscemi
• Line Producer: Giorgio Gasparini
• Casting Director: Chiara Polizzi
• Casting Director: Fiona Weir
• Executive Producer: Eli Bush
• Executive Producer: Jeff Deutchman
• Executive Producer: Tom Quinn
• Executive Producer: Michael Weber
• Production Design: Emita Frigato
• Sound: Xavier Lavorel
• Second Assistant Director: Daniela Baldasarre
• First Assistant Director: Nicola Scorza
• Hairstylist: Ivan Spignese
• Key Hair Stylist: Daniela Tartari
• Key Makeup Artist: Esmé Sciaroni
• Assistant Director: Annamarie Dicesare
• Assistant Director: Gianluca Granocchia
• Assistant Director: Francesca Lepore
• Sound Effects Editor: Henry Sims
• Grip: Roberto Albero
• Grip: Andrea Cammertoni
• Gaffer: Fabio Capozzi
• Grip: Maurizio Cossu
• Gaffer: Marianne Lamour
• Grip: Fabrizio Tomaino
• Key Grip: Daniele Postiglione
• Key Grip: Carlo Postiglione
• Producer: Alexandra Henochsberg
• Producer: Paolo Del Brocco
• Producer: Olga Lamontanara
• Producer: Michela Pini
• Producer: Gregory Gajos
• Producer: Amel Soudani
• Producer: Pierre-François Piet
• Executive Producer: Alessio Lazzareschi
• Associate Producer: Manuela Melissano
• Associate Producer: Valeria Jamonte
• Sound Editor: Marta Billingsley
• Dialogue Coach: Tatiana Lepore
• Additional Third Assistant Director: Io Baur
• Additional Third Assistant Director: Andrej Chinappi
• Assistant Art Director: Alessandra Frigato
• Painter: Pistillo Annalisa
• Property Master: Dattoli Antonio
• Assistant Set Decoration: Daria Di Lernia
• Art Department Assistant: Jacopo Giulini
• Assistant Set Decoration: Santo Krappmann
• Props: Ciro Manfellotto
• Property Master: Paolo Pacioni
• Foley Artist: Miguel Barbosa
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Maxence Ciekawy
• Boom Operator: Pierre Collodin
• Boom Operator: Julien D’Esposito
• Boom Operator: Marie Mougel
• Sound Editor: Ilù Seydoux
• Sound Designer: François Wolf
• Visual Effects: Dario Currò
• Visual Effects Producer: Lena Di Gennaro
• Digital Compositor: Marta Fava
• Digital Compositor: Mariachiara Incecchi
• Digital Compositor: Michela Menchini
• Digital Compositor: Virginia Renzi
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Rodolfo Migliari
• Digital Compositor: Gaia Tironi
• Digital Compositor: Elisa Tiziani
• Compositing Supervisor: Fausto Vitali
• Electrician: Alessandro Grassadonia
• Grip: Sgrulloni Andrea
• Electrician: Romualdo Benedetti
• Second Assistant Camera: Alberto Bracalente
• Video Assist Operator: Clarissa Bragaglia
• Gaffer: Ernst Brunner
• Electrician: Silvio Capozzi
• Underwater Camera: Aldo Chessari
• First Assistant Camera: Hélène Degrandcourt
• Electrician: Sandro Hofstetter
• Clapper Loader: Toshiyuki Ishii
• Electrician: Alessandro Lanini
• Electrician: Francesco Monaco
• Electrician: Riccardo Monaco
• Electrician: Paolo Monetti
• Loader: Marta Natoli
• Second Assistant Camera: Viola Pagli
• Still Photographer: Simona Pampallona
• Grip: Mattia Pederzoli
• Video Assist Operator: Marta Rotelli
• Camera Operator: Ilya Sapeha
• Underwater Camera: Alice Siesto
• Underwater Camera: Riccardo Umetelli
• Casting Assistant: Lea Gazzurra
• Assistant Costume Designer: Stefania Colombo
• Costume Assistant: Carolina Felicissimo
• Seamstress: Romani Loretta
• Costume Assistant: Eleonora Medolla
• Seamstress: Cristina Pucci
• Colorist: Thomas Bouffioulx
• Assistant Editor: Shara Spinella
• Assistant Editor: Giorgia Villa
• Location Manager: Laura Petruccelli
• Script Supervisor: Sara Cavani
• Production Coordinator: Roberta Aloisio
• Production Assistant: Luca Bertini
• Production Assistant: Riccardo Carletti
• Production Assistant: Cristiano Ciliberti
• Production Assistant: Virginia Enrico
• Production Accountant: Francesca Claudione
• Payroll Accountant: Giuliana Claudione
• Payroll Accountant: Matteo Claudione
• Assistant Accountant: Paola De Lorenzo
• Production Assistant: Castiglione Gaetano
• Production Assistant: Di Marco Giancarlo
• Production Secretary: Amir Kamal
• Production Assistant: Mannozzi Manolo
• Production Coordinator: Monica Mele
• Production Assistant: Annalia Silecchia
• Production Assistant: Lopis Stefano
• Set Decoration: Rachele Meliadò
• Makeup Artist: Alice Esposito

Movie Reviews:

• Brent Marchant: When an English tomb raider (Josh O’Connor) skilled at dowsing uses his skills to hunt down buried Etruscan artifacts, he achieves success at his craft but suffers setbacks when he falls in with the wrong crowd. As a consequence, he drifts through life, trying to find his way (and, ironically enough, a moral footing), an odyssey filled with quirky people and events, a would-be romantic interest (Carol Duarte) with two carefully concealed children, an aging operatic instructor (Isabella Rossellini) skilled at fleecing her “students,” and, of course, his coterie of comical criminal cronies. Writer-director Alice Rohrwacher’s latest tells a delightful fable full of wit, whimsy, colorful characters, high intrigue and its share of surreal moments, all set against the Italian landscape. The film admittedly takes a little time to find its stride, so getting through the opening act will require some patience (editing here would have helped). But, once the picture finds its way, it becomes a fun-filled ride, peppered with absurdist humor and filmed with Fellini-esque cinematography and a production design reminiscent of the famed auteur. With a runtime of 2:10:00, it could stand some trimming (most notably at the outset, as noted above), but this cinematic charmer is a modestly pleasant diversion to watch while stretched out on the couch while casually savoring a demitasse of espresso and a plate of biscotti. Godere!
• CinemaSerf: A rather scruffy looking Josh O’Connor is “Arthur” who has found a way to make a living in rural Italy where he uses his unique gift with a divining rod – well a big twig, really – to uncover ancient artefacts from deep beneath the surface. He’s not averse to a bit of grave robbing either – for which he has recently been imprisoned, and now he and his cohorts sell their stuff to “Spartaco” (Alba Rohrwacher) and via a rather unique technique, too! What’s clear is that “Arthur” is getting over something fairly monumental in his life, and we get a clue to that when he visits the rather doting but blissfully ignorant and elderly “Flora” (Isabella Rossellini) at her increasingly dilapidated mansion house where the furniture is destined for the furnace and her family all know the secret, but dare not speak it. He, himself, inhabits a shanty-town style shed abutting the old city wall, his once proud linen suit now grubby and filthy and he is rarely without a cigarette. As the plot unfolds – aided by an agreeably sparing amount of dialogue – we start to get a sense that “Arthur” is actually coming to his senses after something akin to a concussion. The pieces of his life are slowly coming together again as he and his pals make the discovery of a lifetime, only for… It’s a slowly paced film, but that works well – as do the infrequent but quite punchy comedic elements of the drama. There can be a comparison drawn between the gradual unearthing of the long lost relics and with his own re-realisation but it’s all delivered with a brightness that keeps it from becoming downbeat or depressing. Director Alice Rohrwacher offers us a personal story tempered with a bit of mythology and a fair degree of ill-defined humanity that is compellingly incomplete in many ways. I reckon it might merit a second watch, there’s plenty of nuanced writing here.