![]() He spends a lot of the time in very dark rooms. He is rude to his Italian guide, Eugenia (Miss Giordano), who would like to have an affair with him. Gortchakov is homesick, but his homesickness is a kind of madness (I think). Tarkovsky's private world was created for camera-carrying tourists. The Italian landscapes, frequently heavily misted, the ancient churches, the old towns, the occasional peasant, and the leading lady (Domiziana Giordano) are so lovely one feels that Mr. ![]() Loveliness, I'm afraid, is really what this movie is all about. In the course of the film, Gortchakov does very little research and a lot of musing, which often takes the form of lovely flashbacks and fantasies, most of which are seen in monochrome as compared to the living color of the other lovely images. The setting is Italy, where the hero, Gortchakov (Oleg Yankovsky), has come to research the life of a 17th-century Russian composer who spent a long time in Italy, was terribly homesick, finally went home, became an alcoholic and committed suicide. The film opens today at the Lincoln Plaza Quad, Broadway between 62d and 63d Streets.Īndrei Tarkovsky's ''Nostalghia'' (''Nostalgia'') is the first film to be made outside of Russia by this relentlessly poetic Soviet director. ![]() Following are excerpts from Vincent Canby's review that appeared in The New York Times Oct. ''Nostalghia'' was shown as part of last year's New York Film Festival. ![]()
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