Cinema Paradiso

“"Don’t look back. Don’t write. Don’t give in to nostalgia," Alfredo tells his young friend, when he’s sending him off to start a new life. It’s rare for a film so bathed in the stuff to acknowledge the downside of nostalgia as well, its tendency to infantilise and coddle us. As an older man...Totò returns to the wreckage that was once his past, and Giuseppe Tornatore invites us to reject Alfredo’s advice in a near-pornographic trip down memory lane.”