Critic Reviews

Perhaps Tarkovsky’s most opaque film, Nostalghia is nonetheless one of his most personal.

Nostalghia is further evidence that Andrei Tarkovsky might not be a filmmaker, but a sorcerer.

Stick with it. There are shocking acts that rupture the stillness, and then there’s one of cinema’s great endings,

Much of the film is difficult to understand—as with many poems, its meanings are so personal that they’re often cryptic—but Gorchakov’s (and Tarkovsky’s) displacement comes through powerfully in lonely rooms and in tracking shots that give the impression of a soul adrift.

A meditative film by visionary Soviet filmmaker Tarkovsky that lures viewers into its mysterious, mystical world and completely envelops them for a two-hour stretch.

A hauntingly beautiful film.

Tarkovsky remains as much a metaphysician as anything else, and Nostalgia isn't an entertainment but an article of faith.

It aims for a hushed, hypnotic, incantatory effect, and it does succeed in inducing some kind of trance.

Loveliness, I'm afraid, is really what this movie is all about.