Alice Rohrwacher turns the adventures of tomb robbers in the Etruscan Badlands into an existential journey that is also an ode to the fragility of the beautiful things in life, and a cautionary tale about how easily they can be lost.
Like its central character, an archaeological psychic, this strange, messy, and resonant film aims to unearth buried treasure. And, like the illegal excavations that provide its narrative baseline, it succeeds when it doesn’t worry too much about neatness and precision.

This is a film about an out-of-joint-world, where nature has been ravaged, the dead desecrated, the earth despoiled for trivial, short-term gain, and communities forsaken. But for all our failures and hapless attempts to set things right, it reminds us that beauty somehow persists.

(Lee Marshall, Screen Daily)