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- 2018
- R
- Bleecker Street Media
- 1 h 54 m
- 2018
- R
- Bleecker Street Media
- 1 h 54 m
Summary A mosaic of stories about love and loss, Nostalgia explores our relationships to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.
Directed By: Mark Pellington
Written By: Alex Ross Perry, Mark Pellington
- 2018
- R
- Bleecker Street Media
- 1 h 54 m
- 2018
- R
- Bleecker Street Media
- 1 h 54 m
Nostalgia
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3.8
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Summary A mosaic of stories about love and loss, Nostalgia explores our relationships to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.
Directed By: Mark Pellington
Written By: Alex Ross Perry, Mark Pellington
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
47
32% Positive
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7 Reviews
45% Mixed
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10 Reviews
23% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
47
32% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
45% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
23% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
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.
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.
It’s beguiling that a film with an almost religious aversion to subtext could be so unsure of its own subject, but Pellington knows from experience that it’s hard to put a finger on impermanence.
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.
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.
Mark Pellington's Nostalgia is less a living, breathing film than a presentation of sentiments revolving around a pat question: Are the objects of our lives merely detritus, or are they vital to our identities?
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.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
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