Nostalgia review – Tarkovsky’s yearning cine-poem is deeply mysterious and profound
A scholar has an existential crisis while researching the life of a composer in the Russian director’s Italy-set 1983 masterworkAndrei Tarkovsky’s 1983 film is a mysterious, imagist cine-poem about alienation and belonging, whose title means a yearning not simply for a lost time or lost place but for something, anything, else – with a profound anguished sense that the here-and-now of existence is unsatisfactory.The movie takes something from the poetry of the director’s father Arseny Tarkovsky, which is quoted in…
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