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The Taste of Cherry

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The Taste of Cherry
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NR,1hr 38min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
March 8, 1998
Director:
Abbas Kiarostami
Distributor:
Zeitgeist Films
Starring:
Homayoun Ershadi, Safar Ali Moradi, Mir Hossein Noori  ...more
Synopsis: Co-winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, The Taste of Cherry is the venerable Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's examination of life, death and the small miracles in between. Homayoun Ershadi stars as Mr. Badii, a middle-aged man wishing to kill himself; driving his Range Rover across the arid outskirts of Tehran, he searches for someone to aid him in his final hours, someone who will agree to bury his body if he succeeds in his mission -- a planned overdose of sleeping pills ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Abbas Kiarostami's A Taste of Cherry (1997) consolidated his international reputation as the top director to emerge from Iran's post-revolution movie renaissance. Working in his signature mode of repetition and ellipsis, Kiarostami's story of a man's enigmatic search to find someone willing to violate Islamic law by assisting him in committing suicide becomes a meditation on the stages of life and ... Full Review
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Homayoun Ershadi
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