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

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

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

Nothing happens.

| May 20, 2003