Taste of Cherry (Previously Owned BLU-RAY)
Condition: Disc,Case, and Booklet Like New.
The first Iranian film to win the Palme d’Or, this austere, emotionally complex drama by the great Abbas Kiarostami follows the middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) as he drives around the hilly outskirts of Tehran looking for someone who will agree to dispose of his body after he commits suicide, a taboo under Islam. Extended conversations with three passengers (a soldier, a seminarian, and a taxidermist) elicit different views of mortality and individual choice. Operating at once as a closely observed, realistic story and a fable populated by archetypal figures, Taste of Cherry challenges the viewer to consider what often goes unexamined in everyday life.
FILM INFO
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Project (1997), a thirty-nine-minute sketch film for Taste of Cherry that Abbas Kiarostami made with his son Bahman Kiarostami
- New interview with film scholar Hamid Naficy
- Interview from 1997 with Abbas Kiarostami, conducted by film scholar Jamsheed Akrami
- Program from 2017 on Kiarostami’s use of landscape featuring film scholar Kristin Thompson
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic A. S. Hamrah
New cover by Michael Boland