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Nostalgia

2018 · 115 min

A quiet, mournful mosaic that drifts between strangers' small heartbreaks, asking you to sit with loss and the objects we cling to.

Directed by
Mark Pellington
Genres
Drama
Tagline
Memories of Lives Lived
Overview
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.

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Directed by
Mark Pellington
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • memory
  • family
  • death
  • love
Places
  • small town
  • suburbs
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Mark Pellington
Written by
Alex Ross Perry
Starring
Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener, John Ortiz, Nick Offerman, James Le Gros, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Amber Tamblyn
Music
Laurent Eyquem
Cinematography
Matt Sakatani Roe
Runtime
115 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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