Nostalgia (DVD)

Featuring the excellent Pierfrancesco Favino (The Traitor), acclaimed writer/director Mario Martone’s absorbing, multi award-winning drama follows a man with a troubled past who returns to his native Neapolitan neighbourhood after 40 years of absence. Rione Sanità, Naples. Present day. 50-something businessman Felice Lasco (Favino) has come back from the Middle East to visit his ageing mother (Aurora Quattrocchi). Wandering the streets, Felice rediscovers the city, its codes and rituals, and memories that still haunt him. Despite local priest Don Luigi’s (Francesco Di Leva) advice to leave his past behind, he seeks out his boyhood friend Oreste (Happy as Lazzaro’s Tommaso Ragno), now a feared local mobster...