NOSTALGHIA (125’)
by Andrei TARKOVSKY
with Oleg Jankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
Italy/USSR, 1983
Restored by CSC – Cineteca Nazionale
in collaboration with Rai Cinema
Introduced by Adriano De Grandis
Screening in original language with subtitles in Italian.
“As slow and dense as a prayer, Andrey Tarkovsky’s second-to-last film is the poem of distance and faith, the director’s farewell to a difficult and ungrateful homeland, his personal praise of folly, and an enchanting manifesto against the dictatorship of beauty, sculpted in mesmerising locations: the submerged church of Santa Maria in Vittorino, the ruins of the Abbey of San Galgano, the crypt of San Pietro in Tuscania, the hilltop town of Calcata, the thermal bath of Bagno Vignoni. Geometric shots, gazes into the camera, a soundtrack infused with songs, dripping water, barking, while the set is constantly flooded with rain, snow, thermal waters, puddles, sometimes in black and white, sometimes in colour, sometimes in half-tones”. (Alberto Anile)
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“De Seta’s sense of rhythm, his use of the camera, his extraordinary ability to blend characters with the location, were a complete revelation to me. He was an anthropologist who expressed himself with the voice of a poet”. (Martin Scorsese)
