Taste of Cherry - Criterion Collection
by Abbas Kiarostami
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Actor: Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Homayon Ershadi, Mir Hossein Noori, Safar Ali MoradiDirector: Abbas Kiarostami
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Persian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.66:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-06-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Taste of Cherry - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: A movie that comes close to meditation
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie changed my thoughts about what cinema can do. It is as close to a mindfullness meditation - vipassana- as as movie can be. It is a very long, at times frustrating movie, but the rewards of watching are very rich are long lasting.
Strongly urge anyone with a meditative bent of mind to view it.
Summary of Taste of Cherry - Criterion Collection
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran-searching for someone to rescue or bury him. Criterion is proud to present the DVD premiere of Taste of Cherry in a beautiful widescreen transfer.Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami won the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for this contemplative film about a Muslim, Mr.?Badi (Homayon Ershadi), who drives around the barren hills outside Tehran, flagging down passersby and offering good money for a simple job that he's hesitant to explain. He's planning his suicide and seeks someone to perform something of a symbolic eulogy. Most of his subjects refuse (personal morality aside, suicide is forbidden to Muslims), but he finds an elderly taxidermist (Abdolrahman Bagheri) who agrees only because he needs the money for an ill child. Yet the old man gently pleads with him to choose life, to embrace the joys of earthly existence, to remember the taste of cherries. Though initially greeted with critical acclaim, A Taste of Cherry received poor distribution in the U.S. The meandering, deliberately paced drama is composed of long conversations and long silences, and the camera is locked in the car for entire sequences, staring at the protagonists in still closeups with the dusty landscape rolling past the windows of the Land Rover in the background. Kiarostami's film is not for everyone, but if you can embrace the quiet power and grace of his deceptively simple style, the film becomes a remarkably rich celebration of human dignity and resilience. By the astonishing conclusion we can see past Badi's age-etched face to the soul peering out from behind his sad eyes. --Sean Axmaker
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