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Winner of the top prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Taste of Cherry is an existential fable of weight and clarity from director Abbas Kiarostami.
An Iranian man, Mr. Badi, is determined to commit suicide at nightfall, but seeks a living assistant to check his hand-dug grave the following morning. If Badi is dead, the person will fill the grave with dirt; if not, he will help Badi out of the hole - in either event receiving a handsome reward for the task. Badi scours the hills outside Tehran in his Range Rover, explaining the proposition to his passengers one by one. The candidates among them a soldier, a seminarian and a taxidermist - react differently to Badi's strange, forbidden request. Each lends new perspective on what it is that makes life worth living.
- "The Best Film Of The Year."
- - Richard Corliss, Time Magazine -
- "A Masterpiece!"
- - New York Daily News -
In Farsi with English subtitles , 1997, color, 95 minutes
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