Hating on a movie like veteran director Mark Pellington’s “Nostalgia” costs you something. It’s an achingly sincere, Proustian mosaic about grief and memory, co-written and directed by a bereaved filmmaker as a therapeutic exercise. (Pellington’s wife died suddenly in 2004, leaving him to raise their then 2-year-old daughter alone.) The film is low key and very slow, but there’s a quiet missionary zeal at work: a fervid desire to impart Big Truths about the human predicament by preaching personal epiphanies, traumatically acquired. “Nostalgia” means well. It tries hard. It wants to help. And there’s nothing at all pleasurable in stomping on...
- 2/14/2018
- by Ray Greene
- The Wrap
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