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Taste of Cherry - The Criterion Collection
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The first Iranian film to win the Palme d'Or, this austere, emotionally complex drama by the great ABBAS KIAROSTAMI (Close-up) follows the middle-aged Mr. Badii (The Kite Runner's HOMAYOUN ERSHADI) as he drives around the hilly outskirts of Tehran looking for someone who will agree to dispose of his body after he commits suicide, a taboo under Islam. Extended 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.
Special Features:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Project, Abbas Kiarostami's 39-minute 1997 sketch film for Taste of Cherry, made with the director's son Bahman Kiarostami
- New interview with Iranian film scholar Hamid Naficy
- Rare 1997 interview with Abbas Kiarostami, conducted by Iranian film scholar Jamsheed Akrami
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic A. S. Hamrah
- The Criterion Collection
- Abbas Kiarostami
- PG
- Homayon Ershadi
- Abdolrahman Bagheri
English
- 1997
- Arabic
- 1
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
Taste of Cherry - The Criterion Collection
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Blu-ray
RRP £24.99
£21.99
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The first Iranian film to win the Palme d'Or, this austere, emotionally complex drama by the great ABBAS KIAROSTAMI (Close-up) follows the middle-aged Mr. Badii (The Kite Runner's HOMAYOUN ERSHADI) as he drives around the hilly outskirts of Tehran looking for someone who will agree to dispose of his body after he commits suicide, a taboo under Islam. Extended 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.
Special Features:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Project, Abbas Kiarostami's 39-minute 1997 sketch film for Taste of Cherry, made with the director's son Bahman Kiarostami
- New interview with Iranian film scholar Hamid Naficy
- Rare 1997 interview with Abbas Kiarostami, conducted by Iranian film scholar Jamsheed Akrami
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic A. S. Hamrah
- The Criterion Collection
- Abbas Kiarostami
- PG
- Homayon Ershadi
- Abdolrahman Bagheri
English
- 1997
- Arabic
- 1
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
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Taste of Cherry
This is a great film and to have it on criterion is amazing. The picture quality is magnificent and the special features that go along with the film are interesting. Overall a great release from Criterion!
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