Dir.: Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1994, 103 min., Persian with English subtitles
This investigation of the complex relationship between cinema and real life evolves from an incident in Abbas Kiarostami’s earlier film And Life Goes On. Through the Olive Trees features an actor playing Kiarostami, who is looking for amateur actors to star in a film called And Life Goes On. The couple he chooses, however, has a history that repeatedly and humorously thwarts the filmmaker’s ambitions: The woman recently spurned the man’s marriage proposal and is forbidden by family and tradition from speaking to him—except within the fiction of the film. This brilliant cinematic allegory earned raves around the world and paved the way for such later masterpieces as Taste of Cherry and The Wind Will Carry Us.
Cost: Free, Walk-in
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