Nostalghia
A Russian prayer in Italy
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 21, 2014
- Originally Released: 1983
- Label: Kino Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Oleg Yankovsky & Erland Josephson | |
Performer: | Domiziana Giordano | |
Directed by | Andrei Tarkovsky | |
Edited by | Amedeo Salfi & Erminia Marani | |
Produced by | Francesco Casati, Renzo Rossellini & Manolo Bolognini | |
Director of Photography: | Giuseppe Lanci |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 8/10 --
Tarkovsky's hypnotic framing of Gorchakov's experience is made possible through his signature pacing, extended tracking shots, and slow zooms and focusing.
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PopMatters
Nothing happens.
New York Times
Nostalgia engages questions and emotions that are rarely even contemplated in the cinema.
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Film4
Rating: 4.0/5 --
Just as Tarkovsky used deep space to explore psychological space in Solaris, here, he's using an estranging, sepia-toned Tuscany to express the dimensions of the soul.
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The Dissolve
Rating: 5/5 --
Almost seemed to be anticipating Tarkovsky's own demise with its strange sensibility of apocalyptic proselytising juxtaposed with a more soothing, balming, elegiac tone.
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Patrick Nabarro
Rating: 4/4 --
...transports us to a place that no longer feels temporal, but spiritual.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 4/5 --
It's a mood piece that makes you feel like you're drowning in high-grade art swill. If that sounds oppressive, know that it is, but the tonic is invigorating: a clammy atmosphere so unlike the airless options Hollywood's about to spring on us.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Director Andrei Tarkovsky recasts his lifelong cinematic motif of humanity's quest for faith in the waterlogged and mist-ensconced countryside of Italy for his philosophical masterpiece NOSTALGHIA. Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky) is a misanthropic Russian scholar researching the life of an exiled Russian composer who committed suicide. With the help of his beautiful guide, Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano), Andrei visits mystical and religious sites on the trail of the late composer's legacy. In the shadow of the doomed composer's memory, Andrei finds himself crippled by a melancholy nostalgia for his Russian homeland, only to discover redemption in the form of a madman, Domenico (Erland Josephson), whom he encounters at St. Catherine's pool, a religious site in Sienna. Domenico, a former professor who once locked his family away for seven years in anticipation of Armageddon, now leads a seemingly insane existence, believing that if he can travel across the pool with a lighted candle, he can save all of humanity. As in his mystical film THE MIRROR, Tarkovsky weaves a dense, mediatative pattern of images--freely mixing past and present, dream and reality, color and black and white, landscape and architecture--with the scholar and the madman acting as allegorical players in a metaphysical trial by fire and water.
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