Taste of Cherry (1997)Taste of Cherry, Iran’s premier director Abbas Kiarostami’s minimalist film is bleak.
The story (such as it is) follows a man as he drives around Tehran, searching for someone to bury his body after he commits suicide.
The man contemplates his own life in conversations with various people he picks up along the way.
The first (and only) Palme d’Or winner directed by an Iranian filmmaker, Taste of Cherry offers a surprising take on humanity from an accomplished director, who manages to insert his own postmodern twist by the film’s end.
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