Nostalghia is further evidence that Andrei Tarkovsky might not be a filmmaker, but a sorcerer.
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Village VoiceAlan Scherstuhl
Village VoiceAlan Scherstuhl
Stick with it. There are shocking acts that rupture the stillness, and then there’s one of cinema’s great endings,
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The DissolveScott Tobias
The DissolveScott Tobias
Much of the film is difficult to understand—as with many poems, its meanings are so personal that they’re often cryptic—but Gorchakov’s (and Tarkovsky’s) displacement comes through powerfully in lonely rooms and in tracking shots that give the impression of a soul adrift.
A meditative film by visionary Soviet filmmaker Tarkovsky that lures viewers into its mysterious, mystical world and completely envelops them for a two-hour stretch.