NOSTALGHIA (4K)

Andrei Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word nostalghia conveysthe love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being faraway. This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film byAndrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian intellectual doing research inItaly. He becomes obsessed with the Botticelli-like beauty of his translatorEugenia (Domiziana Giordano), as well as with the apocalyptic ramblingsof a self-destructive wanderer named Domenico (Erland Josephson, TheSacrifice). Written with frequent Michelangelo Antonioni collaborator ToninoGuerra (LAvventura) and newly restored in 4K from the original cameranegative, Nostalghia is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West,shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. As J. Hobermanwrote, Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours.