Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Nostalgia (2018)
NOSTALGIA (2018) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Mark Wellington
Ellen Burstyn, Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener,
Bruce Dern, James Le Gros, Mikey Madison,
Nick Offerman, John Ortiz, Amber Tamblyn
This is a movie about stuff, specifically the material objects we treasure and hang on to as we move through life, or navigate the transitions from one phase to another. It's a series of stories connected by a character who moves from one story to the next and then drops away while another character moves on to the next story, and on and on. It makes you think about what matters and what doesn't, and how something that has value for one person might not mean much to somebody else. The approach to what that means when much of what you care about - music, photographs, correspondence - is digital is especially interesting.