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Taste of Cherry (The Criterion Collection) DVD

Unrated :: Criterion :: Released: 1999-06-08

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Taste of Cherry (The Criterion Collection) Summary Winner 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. Criterion Is Proud To Present The Dvd Premiere Of taste Of Cherry In A Beautiful Widescreen Transfer.

Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami won the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for this contemplative film about a Muslim, Mr. Badi (Homayon Ershadi), who drives around the barren hills outside Tehran, flagging down passersby and offering good money for a simple job that he's hesitant to explain. He's planning his suicide and seeks someone to perform something of a symbolic eulogy. Most of his subjects refuse (personal morality aside, suicide is forbidden to Muslims), but he finds an elderly taxidermist (Abdolrahman Bagheri) who agrees only because he needs the money for an ill child. Yet the old man gently pleads with him to choose life, to embrace the joys of earthly existence, to remember the taste of cherries. Though initially greeted with critical acclaim, A Taste of Cherry received poor distribution in the U.S. The meandering, deliberately paced drama is composed of long conversations and long silences, and the camera is locked in the car for entire sequences, staring at the protagonists in still closeups with the dusty landscape rolling past the windows of the Land Rover in the background. Kiarostami's film is not for everyone, but if you can embrace the quiet power and grace of his deceptively simple style, the film becomes a remarkably rich celebration of human dignity and resilience. By the astonishing conclusion we can see past Badi's age-etched face to the soul peering out from behind his sad eyes. --Sean Axmaker

Taste of Cherry [Criterion Collection] DVD Techincal Details Cast: Homayoun Ershadi, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi, Mir Hossein Noori
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Rated: Unrated
Running Time: 95 mins
UPC: 037429137222
Binding: DVD
Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 1999-06-08
Region Code: 1
Specs: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Persian (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono),