JASON EVANS Alice Rohrwacher’s films give you the same feeling as travelling in the backseat of a car as a child, falling asleep in one place and waking up in another. Just like Arthur in La Chimera's opening scene who is woken from a train-lulled reverie about his lost love, we too are caught in a temporal wilderness.

SALOMON LIGTHELM I’m drawn to how Zvyagintsev shows individuals crushed under corruption and injustice. The biblical undertones speak to me: suffering, futility, and yet a yearning for something greater. It’s a mirror of so many lives lived under systems that are immovable, and yet still they endure.