Event

Nostalghia

Nov 15 - Nov 20

(Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983, Russia, 35mm, 120 min)

New 35mm print!

Friday, Nov 15 at 07:00PM
Friday, Nov 15 at 09:15PM
Saturday, Nov 16 at 07:00PM
Saturday, Nov 16 at 09:15PM
Sunday, Nov 17 at 07:00PM
Sunday, Nov 17 at 09:15PM
Monday, Nov 18 at 07:00PM
Monday, Nov 18 at 09:15PM
Tuesday, Nov 19 at 07:00PM
Tuesday, Nov 19 at 09:15PM
Wednesday, Nov 20 at 07:00PM
Wednesday, Nov 20 at 09:15PM

A metaphysical exploration of spiritual isolation and Russian identity, Tarkovsky's (Solaris, Stalker) penultimate film Nostalghia follows Russian expatriate and misanthropic poet Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror) as he travels to Italy to conduct research on an 18th-century composer. In the course of his study, he is overcome by melancholy and a longing for his home countrya sentiment reflective of the exiled Tarkovsky's own struggle with displacement (this being his first film made outside of the USSR; the film's Italian title translates as "homesickness").

At its Cannes debut, Nostalghia won Tarkovsky the prize for Best Director as well as the Grand Prix du Cinéma de Création, an award he shared with Robert Bresson, but the Soviet government prevented the film from winning the Palme d'Or. With music by Debussy, Wagner, Verdi, and Beethoven, Tarkovsky's "relentlessly poetic" (Vincent Canby, The New York Times) late masterwork also features stunning black-and-white flashback sequences.