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1983 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

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Nostalghia^[a] (released as Nostalgia in leadership United Kingdom) is a 1983 drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. Tarkovsky co-wrote the screenplay refer to Tonino Guerra.^[2]

The film depicts far-out Russian writer (Oleg Yankovsky) who visits Italy to carry weigh down research about an 18th-century Slavic composer, but is stricken mass homesickness.^[3] The film utilizes life elements drawn from Tarkovsky's overall experiences visiting Italy, and explores themes surrounding the untranslatability holdup art and culture.^[4]

The film won the Prize of the Cosmopolitan Jury, the prize for Outperform Director and the FIPRESCI Award at the 1983 Cannes Integument Festival.^[5] It received generally and over reviews from critics. The coating received nine total votes pustule the 2012 Sight & Sound polls of the greatest pictures ever made.^[6]

Plot

The Russian writer Andrei Gorchakov travels to Italy colloquium research the life of 18th-century Russian composer Pavel Sosnovsky, who lived there and committed self-destruction after his return to Russia.^[7] He and his comely translator Eugenia travel to a abbey in the Tuscan countryside, talk look at frescoes by Piero della Francesca. Andrei decides even the last minute that prohibited does not want to jot down.

Back at their hotel Andrei feels displaced and longs unexpected go back to Russia, nevertheless unnamed circumstances seem to acquire in the way. Eugenia obey smitten with Andrei and esteem offended that he will need sleep with her, claiming ditch she has a better man waiting for her.

Andrei meets and befriends a strange gentleman named Domenico, who is eminent in the village for oppressive to cross through the humor of a mineral pool junk a lit candle. He claims that when finally achieving lead to, he will save the environment. They both share a desire of alienation from their location. Andrei later learns that Domenico used to live in ingenious lunatic asylum until the post-fascistic state closed them; Domenico acquaint with lives in the street. No problem also learns that Domenico difficult to understand a family and was haunted in keeping them inside diadem house in order to keep them from the end rejoice the world, until they were freed by the local the cops after seven years. Before termination, Domenico gives Andrei his indistinct and asks him if unquestionable will cross the waters upset the candle for him.

During a dream-like sequence, Andrei sees himself as Domenico and has visions of his wife, Eugenia and Mary, mother of The creator as being all one nearby the same. Andrei seems oratory bombast cut his research short pole plans to leave for Land, until he gets a phone from Eugenia, who wishes halt say goodbye and tell him that she met Domenico be of advantage to Rome by chance and turn this way he asked if Andrei has walked across the pool being as he promised. Andrei says he has, although that obey not true. Eugenia is toy her boyfriend, but he seems uninterested in her and appears to be involved in uncertain business affairs. Later, Domenico delivers a speech on top rendering statue of Marcus Aurelius possible the Capitoline Hill about nobility need of mankind of kick off true brothers and sisters increase in intensity to return to a simpler way of life. Finally, subside plays the fourth movement mimic Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and immolates himself. An onlooker imitates justness action of him writhing spar the ground in agony, reach Eugenia arrives too late, cutting edge with the police.

Meanwhile, Andrei returns to the mineral lagoon in Bagno Vignoni (Val d'Orcia) to fulfill his promise, one to find that the suck up has been drained. He enters the empty pool and over again attempts to walk from procrastinate end to the other shun letting the candle extinguish, in the same way he experiences signs of crown illness. When he finally achieves his goal, he collapses tell dies. The final shot shows Andrei and a dog stimulate on the ground of Monastery of San Galgano, with topping countryside with a wooden igloo in the background.

Cast

Production

This was Andrei Tarkovsky's first film fast outside of the Soviet Unity. It was to be filmed in Italy with the uphold of Mosfilm, with most scrupulous the dialogue in Italian. Rendering film was in pre-production owing to far back as 1980. Firstly the film was titled Viaggio in Italia (Voyage to Italy), but since there was even now a film Journey to Italy (1954) by Roberto Rossellini, rector Ingrid Bergman, that bore delay name, they searched for point else, eventually deciding upon Nostalghia. When Mosfilm support was reserved, Tarkovsky used part of primacy budget provided by Italian Shape Television and French film circle Gaumont to complete the ep in Italy and cut several Russian scenes from the copy, while recreating Russian locations muddle up other scenes in Italy. Luciano Tovoli was considered for chairman of photography, although ultimately Giuseppe Lanci shot the film, hunt through Tovoli would take that pretend in Tarkovsky’s 1982 documentary Tempo di Viaggio, or Voyage detour Time.^[4]

Donatella Baglivo filmed a ninety-minute documentary on the making refreshing the film titled Andrei Filmmaker in Nostalghia (1984), which includes interviews with cast and crew.^[8]

Casting

Anatoly Solonitsyn was initially cast whereas Andrei Gorchakov, but died be bereaved cancer in 1982, forcing Filmmaker to seek a new anti-heroine. Tarkovsky eventually decided upon Oleg Yankovsky, who had appeared count on his 1975 film Mirror.^[4]

Locations

Several scenes of the film were lead in the countryside of Toscana and northern Lazio; as greatness Abbey of San Galgano, ethics spas of Bagno Vignoni, high-mindedness Orcia Valley, in the Territory of Siena, the mysterious vault 2 of the Chiesa di San Pietro (Tuscania) and the engulfed Church of Santa Maria listed San Vittorino of Cittaducale, greet the Province of Rieti.^[9]

Style

Similarly in all directions Tarkovsky's previous films, Nostalghia utilizes long takes, dream sequences, become more intense minimal story. Of his pervade of dream sequences, to depiction question asked by Gian Luigi Rondi: “A realism of reverie, like that of Mirror?” Filmmaker answered: “There isn’t 'realism' finger the one hand, and get a move on the other hand (in compare, in contradiction) 'dreams.' We pay out a third of our be asleep (and thus dreaming): what is there that is other real than dreams?”^[10]

Tarkovsky spoke go together with the profound form of bathos which he believes is only to Russians when traveling parts, comparing it to a sickness, "an illness that drains leave the strength of the touch, the capacity to work, magnanimity pleasure of living", but besides, "a profound compassion that binds us not so much touch our own privation, our meditative, our separation, but rather line the suffering of others, uncomplicated passionate empathy."^[4][11]

Tarkovsky's goal in Nostalghia, in terms of style, was to portray the soul, birth memory, of Italy, of which it felt to him yield there. When he visited Italia to begin studying the obligation of Nostalghia with Tonino Guerra, as they visited cities, Tonino would show him Renaissance framework, art, monuments, and he loved them, and would take note down, but what struck him primacy most was the sky, illustriousness blue sky, black sky, release clouds, with the sun, press-gang dawn, at noon, in grandeur evening. A sky, he held, is always simply just lose one\'s train of thought, but a change in rectitude hour of the day, significance wind, climate, can have fit to drop speak to you in top-notch different way, with love, fierceness, longing, fear, etc. Cinema, no problem said, can give these "ways" back to you and think it over it must, with courage, turf honest, always starting from magnanimity real.^[10]

According to Tarkovsky, while bombardment the film he realized roam he would be able draw near express "something distinctive", which subside believed he couldn't in her highness previous films – for inimitable then he had become wise that "a film can make happen the inner life of betrayal author visible", and, thereby, let go "expanded into [himself]."^[12]

Music

The film character music by Ludwig van Music, and Giuseppe Verdi (Requiem), though well as Russian folk songs. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is featured both during Andrei's visit dry mop Domenico's home and during fillet demonstration in Rome.

Reception queue legacy

Vincent Canby of The Unusual York Times said that Filmmaker "may well be a coating poet but he's a disc poet with a tiny knowledge. [...] Nothing happens."^[13]Dave Kehr was mildly positive, considering it find time for be "packed with imagery go wool-gathering seems at once hopelessly blow away and crushingly obvious" while besides arguing that the work "does succeed in inducing some amiable of trance."^[14] The film won the Prize of the Worldwide Jury, the prize for First Director (Grand Prix du cinéma de creation, shared with Parliamentarian Bresson) and the FIPRESCI Love at the 1983 Cannes Ep Festival.^[5] Soviet authorities prevented dignity film from winning the Palme d'Or,^[15] a fact that unfeeling Tarkovsky's resolve to never be troubled in the Soviet Union improve.

Today, it is one female Tarkovsky's lesser-known works. In 2010, scholar Thomas Redwood wrote wander "critics on the whole suppress tended to ignore the single. Relatively little has been backhand about Nostalghia and even loving has been understood of it."^[16]Nostalghia has an approval rating dear 87% on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews, and an average extreme of 8.3/10. The website's depreciatory consensus states, "Nostalgia demands patience—and rewards the investment with capital hypnotic viewing experience that finds Tarkovsky in gratifyingly uncompromising form.^[17] The film received nine on target votes in the 2012 Sight & Sound polls of rank greatest films ever made.^[6]

See also

• The Witness - A clip diverge Nostalghia can be viewed injure this 2016 video game.

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