Word: nostalghia
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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Tarkovsky, 52, was most recently acclaimed in the West for Nostalghia, which won three prizes, including a special award for creative cinema, at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. According to Tarkovsky, Soviet officials tried to have the picture withdrawn from the competition. The dispirited director says that he has been allowed to make only six feature-length films during a 24-year career. Present as Tarkovsky made his emotional announcement were three other famous exiled artists from the Soviet Union: Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, Stage Director Yuri Lyubimov and Writer Vladimir Maximov. All understood Tarkovsky's bitter complaint...
MINIMALIST ON ALL BUT the visual count, Nostalghia offers two hours of strikingly beautiful scenery, laced with exotic-looking characters and outbursts of Russian poetry. The film out stylizes every one in recent memory--at the expense, however, of plot, character, dialogue, and other such standard fare; emerging instead is a scenic tour of Tuscany and of the director's subconscious...
...Nostalghia as a whole consists of suggestions, images, and symbols, rather than direct action or dialogue. The images cluster around different kinds of longing of nostalgia--Gortchakov is homesick for Russia; dream-like memory-sequences begin to intrude into the story. Eventually, the subconscious, the memories, unarticulated desires, and dreams all but overwhelm reality, dream-sequences are strung together with a reality that, in turn, is becoming progressively more and more dream-like...
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