Nostalgia (2022 film)

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Nostalgia
Nostalgia (2022) film poster.png
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Mario Martone
Screenplay by
  • Mario Martone
  • Ippolita Di Majo
Based onNostalgia
by Ermanno Rea
Produced by
  • Picomedia
  • Mad Entertainment
  • Medusa Films
Starring
Cinematography Paolo Carnera
Edited byJacopo Quadri
Distributed by
  • Medusa Distribuzione (Italy)
  • ARP Sélection (France)
Release dates
  • 24 May 2022 (2022-05-24)(Cannes)
  • 25 May 2022 (2022-05-25)(Italy)
  • 4 January 2023 (2023-01-04)(France)
Running time
117 minutes [1]
Countries
  • Italy
  • France
LanguageItalian
Box office$2.9 million [2]

Nostalgia is a 2022 Italian-French drama film co-written and directed by Mario Martone, based on a 2016 novel by Ermanno Rea.

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The film premiered in the official competition for Palme d'Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on 24 May 2022. The following month, the film won four Nastro d'Argento Awards, for best director, best actor, best supporting actor, and best screenplay. [3] It was selected as the Italian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Plot

The film follows Felice, a man who returns to his hometown of Naples to visit his ill mother after spending 40 years living in Egypt, [4] where he also converted to Islam, and married an Egyptian woman. [4] Most of the film is set in the impoverished Rione Sanità area of Naples, where Felice first visits his mother and later meets local priest Don Luigi. Felice eventually tells Luigi in a sort of confession that in one of the petty thefts carried out by him and his childhood friend Oreste, the latter killed the owner of a local carpentry shop. Don Luigi throws him out of the church, telling him that Oreste had in the meantime risen to become a dangerous boss of the Camorra, the local organized crime syndicate.

A friend of Felice's mother warns him of danger and urges him to escape from Naples. Don Luigi then introduces Felice to a Camorra family, and during dinner he drinks wine for the very first time, becomes uninhibited, and talks about his childhood spent with Oreste, making everyone speechless. At this point Felice goes to visit the aged Oreste. Oreste, angry because of his friend's abandonment four decades earlier, follows him into an alley, kills him and steals his wallet – and finds inside an old photo of the two of them on a motorbike.

Cast

Release

Nostalgia had its world premiere in the official competition for Palme d'Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on 24 May 2022. [1] [5] The film was released in Italy on 25 May 2022 [2] and in France on 4 January 2023. [6] It had a limited release in USA by Breaking Glass Pictures on 2023. [6]

Reception

Box office

Nostalgia grossed $0 in North America, [6] and $2.9 million in other territories. [2]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 89% of 27 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Walking the tightrope between gangster drama and character study, Nostalgia takes us through the criminal underbelly of Naples in search of a past that may be better left behind." [7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 75 out of 100, based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [8]

Lovia Gyarkye of The Hollywood Reporter praised acting performances by Favino and Ragno, Martone's direction and Paolo Carnera's camerawork, calling it a "surprisingly absorbing film" but adding that its exploration of nostalgia "gets telegraphed to the point of exhaustion." [5] Peter Bradshaw's review in The Guardian described the film as "tremendously shot and terrifically acted," adding that the film "challenges the idea of nostalgia as broadcast in the title: it isn’t simply that nostalgia is delusional, or that the past wasn’t as great as it appears when viewed through rose-tinted spectacles. It is that there is no past and present." [9]

Accolades

Nostalgia was released in Italy just in time to qualify for the annual 2022 Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) Awards handed out by the Italian national association of film critics SNGCI, in a ceremony held on 20 June 2022 at the MAXXI museum in Rome, where it received seven nominations and four wins.

These included Best Actor award for Favino—his fifth Silver Ribbon in that category, making him one of the most acclaimed Italian actors in history–and Best Director for Martone, who received the accolade for his work on both Nostalgia and his earlier film The King of Laughter (Qui rido io) released in September 2021.

The film was also screened at the Motovun Film Festival in July 2022, where it competed for the main award, the Propeller of Motovun.

AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef(s)
Cannes Film Festival 28 May 2022 Palme d'Or Mario Martone Nominated [5]
Silver Ribbon Awards 20 June 2022Best FilmNominated [3]
Best Director Mario MartoneWon
Best Actor Pierfrancesco Favino Won
Best Screenplay Mario Martone and Ippolita di MajoWon
Best Supporting Actor Francesco Di Leva and Tommaso Ragno Won
Best Supporting Actress Aurora Quattrocchi Nominated
Best SoundNominated
Motovun Film Festival 2 August 2022Best FilmMario MartoneNominated

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