![]() Truth be told, it is often frustrating to unpack Nostalghia as Tarkovsky does not delve into any kind of exposition, as if, the sole purpose of this avant-garde art form is self satisfaction. In Gorchakov’s sheer solitude, haunted by lush blacks and whites of his life in Russia, he befriends him interpreting the means of saving the entire world as a masquerade for the cure of his illness. He then encounters a mad soul, Domenico (Erland Josephson), much like a mirror to himself, who has shunned society for the fear of an upcoming apocalypse. Nostalghia centers itself upon Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky), a lonely writer who visits Italy along with a translator to understand the works of a forgotten musician. ![]() When Tarkovsky left Russia so as to exercise his artistic cinematic freedom which was then curbed by incessant censorship, much to the irony of situation, he ended up concocting a film which is in all it’s essence a homage to his homeland. Today, with my own plethora of memories and minimal wisdom thus attained from them, I feel awakened to the themes echoed by Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia. There was an unstoppable sense of alienation and like granules of dust clenched in a fist, the essence dripped right through my fingers. In my yester-years, I remember scurrying across the Andrei Tarkovsky filmography and feeling cold. ![]() It has often been said that aging is the only trade possible for gaining sentience.
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