1997
95 minutes
Color
1.33:1
Farsi
45
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.
| Mr. Badii | Homayoun Ershadi |
| Taxidermist | Abdolrahman Bagheri |
| Worker | Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari |
| Soldier | Safar Ali Moradi |
| Seminarist | Mir Hossein Noori |
| Director | Abbas Kiarostami |
| Written, produced, and directed by | Abbas Kiarostami |
| Cinematography | Homayun Payvar |
| Sound | Jehangir Mirshekari |
| Mix | Mohammad Reza Delpak |
| First assistant director | Hassan Yekta |
| Second assistant director | Bahman Kiarostami |
The word “opera” doesn’t immediately come to mind when one thinks of Abbas Kiarostami. Such a grandly theatrical form would seem antithetical to the more minimalist film sensibility of the Iranian director (Taste of Cherry). But thanks to a surprise commission by the Aix-en-Provence music . . .
In Abbas Kiarostami’s universe, it might be said, there are no things, only relations between things. Likewise, in his cinema: no films, only relations between films—and within them. And between them and us.Three and one. The most celebrated of Iran’s great directors, Kiarostami . . .
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