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Nostalghia
Synopsis
The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov travels through Italy accompanied by his guide and translator as he researches the life of an 18th Century Russian composer, Pavel Sosnovsky. There he meets Erland Josephson, a local pariah who declares that the world is coming to an end.
Our take
Andrei Tarkovsky is one of cinema’s great prophets, an artist whose images and revelations are singular in film history. Made while in exile from the USSR, Nostalghia is no exception: an often-overlooked masterwork, restored in HD. Winner of Best Director at Cannes—an honor he shared with Bresson!
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Awards & Festivals
Cannes Film Festival
1983 | 3 wins including: Best Director
The New York Film Festival
1983
2012
Keyframe
[The shot where Yankovsky carries the candle] certainly raises the stakes for what a shot is expected to accomplish and what we seek from watching it. When we consider that a shot not only contains a sliver of life that it captured, but also a sliver of ours, however many seconds or minutes it occupies of our brief existence on this planet, why shouldn’t we expect from each shot nothing less than life fully realized?
Kevin B. Lee
March 19, 2014
Like “Stalker,” “Nostalghia” is distinguished by its deliberate camera moves and precise audio design. Delicate, selectively desaturated tones give the impression of a film simultaneously monochromatic and in color… “Nostalghia” lacks the confidence of his Soviet films. The artist tries too hard to impress — and yet his mastery of the medium is such that he succeeds.
J. Hoberman
January 24, 2014
BAM Blog
Like Eugenia with the Madonna, we are bearing witness, and the lack of editing [in the candle-carrying scene] brings us closer, beyond the veil of the screen, harmonizing the real and the reel. The sublime sequence that follows Andrei’s completion of the task—a hypnagogic vision of Tarkovsky’s brooding protagonist finally at peace with where he is and where he was—collapses the boundaries further until all is insanely, immaculately one.
Keith Uhlich
June 06, 2013
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