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 masterwork Andrei 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 the film. A distinguished Russian scholar is in Italy to research the life of t

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