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Bookmark or Share- Taste of Cherry Details :: Criterion ForumWinner 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.
- Taste of Cherry Details - Criterion ForumExtended conversations with three passengers (a soldier, a seminarian, and a taxidermist) elicit different views of mortality and individual choice. Operating at once as a closely observed, realistic story and a fable populated by archetypal figures, Taste of Cherry challenges the viewer to consider what often goes unexamined in everyday life.
- Taste of Cherry Review - Criterion ForumAbbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry receives a much-needed Blu-ray upgrade from The Criterion Collection, who present the film on a dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation comes from a new 4K restoration, which has been sourced from the 35mm original camera negative.
- The Koker Trilogy Review - Criterion ForumAbbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for this wondrous, slyly self-referential series of films set in the rural northern-Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the lyrical fables in The Koker Trilogy exemplify both the gentle humanism and the playful sleight of hand that define the director’s sensibility. With each ...
- Leonard Maltin's Top 25 for 25 Years - criterionforum.orgTaste of Cherry and the The Eel I have been waiting to see but are unavailable. I haven't got around to seeing Lost Highway (I hang my head in shame), Ghost Dog was 1999 so it's between Boogie Nights, Jackie Brown, Donnie Brasco and LA Confidential, as I haven't seen the others.
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