a singular work of cinematic art, one that is all the more meaningful the more you know about Tarkovsky’s own ennui

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2024

Characteristic of Tarkovsky, "Nostalghia" is comprised of prolonged takes, an absence of exposition, dreamlike moments, existential dread, autobiographical details, and unusual, but striking compositions.

| Feb 27, 2024

As the title indicates, Nostalghia is a place of mind rather than a film, a thing of everlasting beauty.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 12, 2020

What results is a work of devastating beauty just ripe for the GIFing.

| Jun 30, 2020

Tarkovsky's most emotionally accessible film, and the final no-two-ways-about-it masterpiece of his extraordinary career.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 28, 2020

...the film seems positively out of place compared with the two decades long string of challenging masterworks that preceded it.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 29, 2018

Almost seemed to be anticipating Tarkovsky's own demise with its strange sensibility of apocalyptic proselytising juxtaposed with a more soothing, balming, elegiac tone.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 12, 2018

...transports us to a place that no longer feels temporal, but spiritual.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 4, 2015

Stick with it. There are shocking acts that rupture the stillness, and then there's one of cinema's great endings, a wrenching, rapturous scene that would set both of those poets into embarrassed rewrites.

| Mar 4, 2015

Aims for a hushed, hypnotic, incantatory effect, and it does succeed in inducing some kind of trance.

| Mar 4, 2015

A hauntingly beautiful film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2015

Nostalgia engages questions and emotions that are rarely even contemplated in the cinema.

| Mar 4, 2015

Tarkovsky's hypnotic framing of Gorchakov's experience is made possible through his signature pacing, extended tracking shots, and slow zooms and focusing.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 4, 2015

Tarkovsky is an uncompromising filmmaker... films move slowly, but exercise a fascination unlike anything else I've seen.

| Mar 4, 2015

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.

| Original Score: 4.0/5 | Jan 31, 2014

One of the moistest movies you've ever seen.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 23, 2014

Perhaps Andrei Tarkovsky's most opaque film, Nostalghia is nonetheless one of his most personal.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 30, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 21, 2004