The Taste of Abbas Kiarostami – (22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016)
Rain : photo by Abbas Kiarostami, 2007 (Purdy Hicks Gallery, London)
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Abbas Kiarostami, the multi-award-winning Iranian director whose 1997 film Taste of Cherry was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, has died aged 76.
His trademark Via
Scenes that take place in or around a car
Direct quotes from Persian poetry
Mixing fantasy and reality to employ a metaphoric form
Shoots his films mostly with non-actors and without any script
The use of panoramic long shots
Minimalism
Poetic cinema language
Mixes fact and fiction
Minimal plots with non-dramatic style
Inviting audience to take part in the narrative
The recurrent image of zigzagging roads
Upon accepting a prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Taste of Cherry (1997), he received a hug and kiss from presenter Catherine Deneuve. Since public physical contacts between members of the opposite sexes, who are unrelated to one another, are banned by the Islamic government in Iran, Kiarostami’s home country, he didn’t return to his Tehran home for a week.
Like Someone in Love – Trailer (youtube)
Wim Wenders, Takeshi Kitano, Abbas Kiarostami and Walter Salles at Cannes- 20 May 2007.