Nostalgia

Name: Nostalgia
Genre: Drama
Released: February 16, 2018
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Amber Tamblyn, Annalise Basso, Arye Gross, Beth Grant, Bruce Dern

2018

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Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: February 16, 2018 | R

Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Annalise Basso, Arye Gross, Beth Grant, Bruce Dern, Catherine Keener, Chloe Farnworth, Ellen Burstyn, Hugo Armstrong, James LeGros, Joanna Going, Jon Hamm, Lindsey Kraft, Nick Offerman, Patton Oswalt, Shinelle Azoroh, Tiffany Dion

Summary: A mosaic of stories about love and loss, Nostalgia explores our relationships to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.

Director: Mark Pellington

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 114 min

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Alan Scherstuhl

Feb 14, 2018

Keener, as always, is excellent, a shrewd actor adept at revealing what her characters might not realize they’re revealing. Eventually, she must plumb the depths of grief, and the effect is something like watching a member of your actual family collapse and then pull herself together and keep pressing on. Read full review

David Edelstein

Feb 17, 2018

Pellington and Perry can be accused of over-enunciating their ideas, but any film flooded with this level of emotion is worthy of our respect — and our tears. Read full review

Chandler Levack

Mar 1, 2018

Only a few of the characters are well-developed enough to sustain the movie's interest, while the rest speak in obscure, poetic dialogue that repeats the central thesis ad nauseam. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Jan 13, 2018

Though lent a degree of executional grace by helmer Mark Pellington, Nostalgia nonetheless emerges an inorganic experiment that might’ve seemed more at home developed for the stage or as a novella. Read full review

Josh Kupecki

Feb 28, 2018

The stellar cast is uniformly great, but perhaps that speaks more toward the subject matter of grief and moving on, giving everyone a showcase to sink their teeth into acting. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Feb 15, 2018

A soggy string of Hallmark moments designed to interrogate the value of the objects we cherish, the movie is front-loaded with major stars and squelching with sentiment. Read full review

Ray Greene

Jan 12, 2018

Hamm, an extraordinarily subtle actor whose quiet craft often gets overlooked, is perfectly cast for the tone Pellington wants to strike, and he’s able to emote convincingly in the narrow elegiac range in which Nostalgia tries to operate. Read full review

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KenR

Jan 9, 2019

Could this have been one of the year’s most promising off-beat movies? There’s much style to be admired, with a good deal of thoughtful dialogue delivered by a cast of impressive performers. So what went wrong? Right from the opening, it has the power to draw you in - giving you good reasonsCould this have been one of the year’s most promising off-beat movies? There’s much style to be admired, with a good deal of thoughtful dialogue delivered by a cast of impressive performers. So what went wrong? Right from the opening, it has the power to draw you in - giving you good reasons to be interested in each introduced character. You actually can’t help becoming emotionally involved in their varied situations – you want to feel for them, and hope for the best outcomes as you learn more about their stories. John Oritz might arguably own the movies most interesting character as insurance assessor Daniel Kalman but, there are many good characters and performances introduced as the story/stories continue to unfold. This is possibly where it begins to unravel – it strives for one too many sombre situations, becoming like one of those seventies French dramas - where for one reason or other everyone seems to die. Its heart is in the right place but it’s so unrelenting the viewer starts to seek some relief or simply to go back to the beginning and learn more about the earlier characters - who are never heard of again. There are some interesting observations examining the value we tend to place on ‘things’, be they photos or artefacts gathered, as we journey through life. The stories have an odd linking device that doesn’t work as well as it should, creating an overall episodic feel. Direction, writing style, photography, impressive cast, and thoughtful music score almost save it but fold under the weight of unrelenting loss. Pity, the screen needs more movies with emotional feelings - if only this picture didn’t strive to serve up so much in one sitting.… Expand

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nanaloves4

Mar 3, 2018

The saddest, slowest, worst movie seen in a long time. The only redeeming quality was watching John Hamm and (the very under-rated) Christine Keeler kept me from killing myself from grief.

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