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| The Taste of Cherry (Ta'm-e gilas) |
The first Iranian film to win the Cannes Palme d'Or, this darker vision from Kiarostami turns the bleak into the beautiful.
A man drives dusty roads desperately looking for someone willing to bury him after he commits suicide. Along the way, he encounters an array of characters who either fear, fail or try to dissuade him from his plan.
Spoken of as an inheritor of the humanist traditions of filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray and Jean Renoir, Kiarostami has created an understated, minimalist, realist fable that ultimately borders on the sublime.
Screens with
Two Solutions for One Problem (Kiarostami, 5 mins, Iran, 1975), a comic look at two ways of dealing with life's confrontations, advocating co-operation over conflict.
