Container of (work): Ṭaʻm-i gīlās (Motion picture)
Notes:
880-02 Humāyūn Irshādī, ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Bāqirī, Afshīn Khūrshīd Bākhtarī, Mīr Ḥusayn Nūrī, Ṣafar ʻAli Murādī. Title from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio). 4K digital restoration. Special features: Project (1997), Abbas Kiarostami's 39-minute sketch film for Taste of cherry that he made with his son Bahman Kiarostami; new interview with film scholar Hamid Naficy; rare 1997 interview with Kiarostami, conducted by film scholar Jamsheed Akrami; new English subtitle translation; program from 2017 on Kiarostami's use of landscape featuring film scholar Kristin Thompson; trailer; plus: essay by critic A.S. Hamrah.
Summary:
The first Iranian film to win the Palme d'Or, this austere, humanist drama follows the enigmatic Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) as he drives around the hilly outskirts of Tehran looking for someone who will agree to bury him after he commits suicide, a taboo under Islam. Extended conversations with three passengers (a soldier, a seminarian, and a taxidermist) elicit different views on mortality and individual choice. Operating at once as a closely observed, realistic story and a fable populated by archetypal figures, the film challenges the viewer to consider what often goes unexamined in everyday life.
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