Nostalgia (1983)
Andrei Tarkovsky · 124 min
Nostalgia screens 6 times at 3 London cinemas between Monday 24 August and Thursday 8 October.
Where to watch it
The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street, London WC2B 5PQ
Close-Up Film Centre
97 Sclater Street, London E1 6HR
Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Pl, London WC2H 7BY, United Kingdom
Nostalgia [Nostalghia]
What it is
Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.