Where is the friend's house? And life goes on. Through the olive trees.
Notes:
Where is the friend's house?: Babek Ahmadpour, Ahmad Ahmadpour. And life goes on: Farhad Kheradmand, Pouya Payvar, Hossein Rezai. Through the olive trees: Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai. Title from container. Wide screen. Special edition features: New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; New audio commentary featuring Mahrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, coauthors of Abbas Kiarostami; Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams, a 1994 documentary; New interview with scholar Hamid Naficy; New English subtitle translation.
Contents:
Disc 1. Where is the friend's house? (1987) (83 min.) / written, edited and directed by Abbas Kiarostami; produced by Ali Reza Zarrin -- Disc 2. And life goes on (1992) (95 min.) / written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami; produced by Ali Reza Zarrin -- Disc 3. Through the olive trees (1994) (103 min.) / written, produced, directed, and edited by Abbas Kiarostami; producer, Alain Depardieu.
Summary:
Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for this wondrous, slyly self-referential series of films set in the rural northern-Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the lyrical fables in The Koker Trilogy exemplify both the gentle humanism and playful sleight of hand that define the director's sensibility. With each successive film, Kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind-the-scenes "reality" of the film that preceded it, heightening our understanding of the complex network of human relationships that sustain both a movie set and a village. The result is a gradual outward zoom that reveals the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary life.--Container.
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