Synopsis
Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss.
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Cast
- Pierfrancesco FavinoFelice Lasco
- Francesco Di LevaDon Luigi Rega
- Tommaso RagnoOreste Spasiano
- Aurora QuattrocchiTeresa Lasco
- Sofia EssaïdiAlrette
- Nello MasciaRaffaele
- Artem TkachukYoung Oreste
- Salvatore StrianoGegé
- Virginia ApicellaAdele
- Daniela IoiaYoung Teresa
Recommendations
- 100
The Playlist
The film ends on a slightly too simplistic, almost crass note regarding that point, but it cannot take away from its overall highly sensitive and formally rigorous exploration of nostalgia and of the other, different relationships people can afford to have with their past. - 80
The Guardian
Mario Martone’s beautifully shot and superbly composed film teeters on the edge of something special. And if it doesn’t quite achieve that, settling in the end for something more generically crime-oriented, it’s still very good. - 75
IndieWire
As the two men circle each other in the film’s second half, it shifts from contemplative drama to full-blown suspenseful thriller. It is in the latter mode that Mantone shines best as a filmmaker and Pierfrancesco Favino does as an actor. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
With a formidable cast, assured direction and skillful camerawork, Nostalgia proves to be a surprisingly absorbing film. - 70
Screen Daily
Martone crafts a passionate, angry film that is full of atmosphere and great performances, but never fully convincing or compelling as a drama - 70
Variety
Even in its more generic stretches, Martone’s latest feels both inviting and convincingly inhabited, a siren song to the past that confronts us with a violent, unromantic present, paved under with the same old, blood-washed cobblestones.
