Nostalghia
I suppose there are only so many times one can reference the haunting beauty of a Tarkovsky film. The nostalgia of the title seems to be referring to the main characters' longing for spiritual enlightenment as he travels the Italian countryside away from his Russian home. Needless to say, the film is filled with symbols, long pauses, and religious rites as Tarkovsky attempts to uncover his themes. I found this to be one of his more unscrutable films, yet also one of his most beautiful. Erland Josephsson plays an eccentric old man that seems to harken to the character he would later play in Tarkovsky's final film, The Sacrifice.
posted by Clint @ 12:01 PM
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Tarkovsky's films almost always demand supplemental reading; I recommend Strictly Film School. As for Nostalghia, I found it a lot more tedious than his other films, but the final sequence (in which Josephson lights himself on fire in the public square) is incredibly powerful (it could be the single most memorable image in all of the director's work).
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