Nostalgia (2022 film)

2022 film by Mario Martone

Nostalgia

Theatrical release poster

Directed by| Mario Martone
Screenplay by|

* Mario Martone
* Ippolita Di Majo

Based on| Nostalgia
by Ermanno Rea
Produced by|

* Picomedia
* Mad Entertainment
* Medusa Film

Starring|

* Pierfrancesco Favino
* Francesco Di Leva
* Tommaso Ragno

Cinematography| Paolo Carnera
Edited by| Jacopo 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

Language| Italian
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.

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

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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

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* Pierfrancesco Favino as Felice Lasco
* Francesco Di Leva as Father Luigi Rega
* Tommaso Ragno as Oreste Spasiano
* Aurora Quattrocchi as Teresa Lasco
* Sofia Essaïdi as Arlette
* Nello Mascia as Raffaele
* Emanuele Palumbo as Felice (young)
* Artem Tkachuk as Oreste (young)
* Salvatore Striano as Gegé
* Virginia Apicella as Adele
* Daniela Ioia as Teresa (young)

## Release

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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

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### Box office

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

### Critical response

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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

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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.

Award  | Date of ceremony  | Category  | Recipient(s)  | Result  | Ref(s)

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Cannes Film Festival | 28 May 2022 | Palme d'Or | Mario Martone | Nominated  | [5]
Silver Ribbon Awards | 20 June 2022  | Best Film  |  | Nominated  | [3]
Best Director | Mario Martone  | Won
Best Actor | Pierfrancesco Favino | Won
Best Screenplay | Mario Martone and Ippolita di Majo  | Won
Best Supporting Actor | Francesco Di Leva and Tommaso Ragno | Won
Best Supporting Actress | Aurora Quattrocchi | Nominated
Best Sound  |  | Nominated
Motovun Film Festival | 2 August 2022  | Best Film  | Mario Martone  | Nominated  |

## See also

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* List of submissions to the 95th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
* List of Italian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

## References

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1. ^ a b "Nostalgia - Festival de Cannes 2023". Cannes Film Festival. 24 May 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
2. ^ a b c "Nostalgia (2022)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
3. ^ a b D'Amico, Valentina (21 June 2022). "Nastri d'Argento 2022: Bellocchio, Sorrentino e Martone tra i vincitori". MoviePlayer.it (in Italian). Retrieved 15 August 2022.
4. ^ a b "'Nostalgia': Film Review Cannes 2022", hollywoodreporter
5. ^ a b c Gyarkye, Lovia (24 May 2022). "'Nostalgia': Film Review / Cannes 2022". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
6. ^ a b c "Nostalgia (2022) – Financial Information". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
7. ^ "Nostalgia". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
8. ^ "Nostalgia Reviews". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
9. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (26 May 2022). "Nostalgia review – bittersweet crime yarn also homecoming love-letter to Naples". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2022.

## External links

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* Nostalgia at IMDb

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Films directed by Mario Martone

* Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992)
* Rasoi (1993)
* Nasty Love (1995)
* The Vesuvians (segment "La salita", 1997)
* Rehearsals for War (1998)
* The Scent of Blood (2004)
* We Believed (2010)
* Leopardi (2014)
* Capri-Revolution (2018)
* The Mayor of Rione Sanità (2019)
* The King of Laughter (2021)
* Nostalgia (2022)
* Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me (2023)
* Fuori (2025)

* v
* t
* e

Italian submissions for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

1947–1960|

* Shoeshine (1947)
* Bicycle Thieves (1949)
* The Walls of Malapaga (1950)
* La Strada (1956)
* Nights of Cabiria (1957)
* Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
* The Great War (1959)
* Kapo (1960)

1961–1980|

* La Notte (1961)
* The Four Days of Naples (1962)
* 8½ (1963)
* Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964)
* Marriage Italian Style (1965)
* The Battle of Algiers (1966)
* China Is Near (1967)
* The Girl with the Pistol (1968)
* Fellini Satyricon (1969)
* Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
* The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
* Roma (1972)
* Amarcord (1974)
* Scent of a Woman (1975)
* Seven Beauties (1976)
* A Special Day (1977)
* I nuovi mostri (1978)
* To Forget Venice (1979)
* A Leap in the Dark (1980)

1981–2000|

* Three Brothers (1981)
* The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
* And the Ship Sails On (1983)
* Where's Picone? (1984)
* Macaroni (1985)

* Summer Night (1986)
* The Family (1987)
* The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
* Cinema Paradiso (1989)
* Open Doors (1990)
* Mediterraneo (1991)
* The Stolen Children (1992)
* The Great Pumpkin (1993)
* Lamerica (1994)
* The Star Maker (1995)
* My Generation (1996)
* The Best Man (1997)
* Life Is Beautiful (1998)
* Not of this World (1999)
* One Hundred Steps (2000)

2001–2020|

* The Son's Room (2001)
* Pinocchio (2002)
* I'm Not Scared (2003)
* The Keys to the House (2004)
* Don't Tell (2005)
* Golden Door (2006)
* The Unknown Woman (2007)
* Gomorrah (2008)
* Baarìa (2009)
* The First Beautiful Thing (2010)
* Terraferma (2011)
* Caesar Must Die (2012)
* The Great Beauty (2013)
* Human Capital (2014)
* Don't Be Bad (2015)
* Fire at Sea (2016)
* A Ciambra (2017)
* Dogman (2018)
* The Traitor (2019)
* Notturno (2020)

2021–present|

* The Hand of God (2021)
* Nostalgia (2022)
* Io capitano (2023)
* Vermiglio (2024)

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