Nostalghia

Stick with it. There are shocking acts that rupture the stillness, and then there's one of cinema's great endings, a wrenching, rapturous scene that would set both of those poets into embarrassed rewrites.

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

A hauntingly beautiful film.

Just as Tarkovsky used deep space to explore psychological space in Solaris, here, he's using an estranging, sepia-toned Tuscany to express the dimensions of the soul.

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

It's a mood piece that makes you feel like you're drowning in high-grade art swill. If that sounds oppressive, know that it is, but the tonic is invigorating: a clammy atmosphere so unlike the airless options Hollywood's about to spring on us.

a singular work of cinematic art, one that is all the more meaningful the more you know about Tarkovsky’s own ennui

Characteristic of Tarkovsky, "Nostalghia" is comprised of prolonged takes, an absence of exposition, dreamlike moments, existential dread, autobiographical details, and unusual, but striking compositions.

As the title indicates, Nostalghia is a place of mind rather than a film, a thing of everlasting beauty.

What results is a work of devastating beauty just ripe for the GIFing.