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*Dreams, Nostalgia, And Tzimtzum

*Dreams, Nostalgia, And Tzimtzum

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On Saturday night, my son Matt was out on the town in Budapest, and sent me word that there’s a Tarkovsky summer film festival under way in the city. The films are all in languages I don’t speak, and subtitled in Hungarian, so there’s not much point in going. But the Tarkovsky film I’m obsessed with, Nostalghia, is one I’ve seen so often that I know wha…

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