Taste of Cherry by Abbas Kiarostami
Ta’am-e gilas
Iran1997
Screening Dates
November 1 (Friday) 6:30 PM
November 2 (Saturday) 8:45 PM
November 6 (Wednesday) 8:10 PM
Kiarostami’s exquisite meditation on mortality was co-winner (with Imamura’s The Eel) of the 1997 Palme d’Or at Cannes. Employing minimalist means to profoundly moving ends, it follows a middle-aged, middle-class man, quietly resolved to some desperate purpose, as he criss-crosses the rural outskirts of Tehran in his expensive SUV. He gives lifts to a series of strangers—a Kurdish soldier, an Afghani seminarian, a Turkish taxidermist—and then offers each a large sum of money if they will assist him in a terrible task. Homayoun Ershadi has the unsettling lead role. Kiarostami’s celebrated poetic humanism is everywhere in evidence; the remarkable hall-of-mirrors formalism, the blurring of fiction and documentary, of his previous features is here held in check until the film’s astonishing, enigmatic finale. Taste of Cherry is an unforgettable work.
This screening is restricted to 18+
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