"Actor: Homayon Ershadi"

• Taste Of Cherry (1997) (Original Title Ta'm E Guilass - Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (24/08/2020) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  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

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  Winner of the Palme D'Or at Cannes 1997 'Taste Of Cherry' is a deep philosophical study about a man who is so tired of life that he wants to commit suicide. Cruising the outskirts of Tehran Mr Badii searches for an accomplice who is willing to bury him after he is dead. He is not successful until he finally strikes a bargain with a museum guard. But before the guard agrees to the deed he wants to know why Mr Badii is so desperate to die and how it is possible to dispense with the j

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