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May 3, 2022 · Tarkovsky holds women on such a high pedestal that in the dream sequences, Andrei’s wife and Mother Mary get merged into one woman as if all the women in this world are nothing but the replicas of Mother Mary. The central theme of all Tarkovsky’s films is the spiritual fulfillment of humans. Nostalghia is not an exception. Andrei is ...
Jul 18, 2001 · From the opening images of Nostalghia (1983), Andrei Tarkovsky presents the two disparate worlds-the spare, monochromatic landscape of the Russian countryside and the lush, idyllic meadows of rural Italy-that collided within the soul of Russian author, Andrei Gortchakov (Oleg Yankovsky). Gortchakov has travelled to Italy on an extended research ...
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May 30, 2013 · Review: Nostalghia. Perhaps Andrei Tarkovsky’s most opaque film, Nostalghia is also one of his most personal. Unlike Abbas Kiarostami, a poet of contemporary cinema whose films stopped being about Iran when he stopped making films there, Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia’s preeminent poet of the spirit, proved that while a Russian director could ...
Apr 28, 2020 · Part 1 on an in-depth analysis of Tarkovsky's penultimate masterpiece, "Nostalghia", a film often overlooked and lacking its deserving a more well known repu...
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In a 1962 interview, Tarkovsky said, "All art, of course, is intellectual, but for me, all the arts, and cinema even more so, must above all be emotional and act upon the heart." In further discussing "Nostalghia," he explained that the world conveys "the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away."
Mar 13, 2014 · The narrative conceit of Nostalghia is relatively linear; what sets it apart is the distinctive aesthetic approach Tarkovsky uses to frame the philosophical undertones and emergent spirituality.
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Aug 27, 2013 · Tarkovsky finished the film with Italian and French financial backing, and never returned to his native Russia; his last film, Sacrifice, was made in Sweden, again using a Bergman regular, the great cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Exile is the theme of Nostalghia. Its hero, Andrei Gortchakov (Oleg Yankovsky), has Tarkovsky's own first name and ...
