Director Mario Martone's Nostalgia has been selected
as Italy's submission for this year's Academy Awards. Based on the novel by Ermanno Rea, the film stars Pierfrancesco Favino as a middle-aged Italian man who returns to
his hometown of Naples after living in Egypt for four decades. Back on
home turf, his criminal past catches up with him.
Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno, Aurora Quattrocchi and
Sofia Essaidi also star.
"Nostalgia takes place in a neighborhood of Naples, but the humanity of the
characters and their stories are universal," says Martone. "Everyone
remembers the smells and the flavours of our adolescence, everyone regrets
to have lost them, we all know that sense of guilt towards our parents
getting older and older, and everyone remembers those friends, for whom we
felt a certain kind of love, that faded away with the time passing. And we
all know our hometowns, the cities we come from and in which, together
with the beauty of their nature, culture and of the wealthier areas, can
coexist social issues, rage, abuse of power."
Nostalgia is in US cinemas from January 20th and UK cinemas
from February 17th.
Check out the new trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Based on the novel by Ermanno Rea, NOSTALGIA stars Pierfrancesco Favino (The Traitor) as the middle-aged Felice Lasco, who returns to the bustling Naples after having lived in Egypt for 40 years. Once back, he is caught up in memories of a distant life spent in his hometown, as his criminal youth slowly catches up with him.
