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TASTE OF CHERRY (Ta'm e guilass)

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Year: 1997
Runtime: 95 min.
Country: Iran/France
Language: Farsi with English subtitles
Color: Color
Format: 16mm

A sublime and deceptively simple parable about life's' possibilities, Abbas Kiarostami's Palme d'Or winning Taste of Cherry follows a weary and increasingly desperate middle-aged man through the hilly outskirts of Tehran in search of someone to perform a delicate job for him. The man meets an assortment of different characters, each with his own reason to turn down the job. A haunting film of piercing intensity, Taste of Cherry is told with Kiarostami's incomparable sense of poetry and lyricism.


"Kiarastomi, like no other filmmaker, has a vision of human scale that is simultaneously epic and precisely minuscule." — Stephen Holden, The New York Times

"Despite its somber theme, this masterpiece has a startling epilogue that radiates with wonder and euphoria."
— Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader


 

 
showtime
Thursday, June 10 at 6:30 pm
location
Nevada Museum of Art - Prim Theater
160 West Liberty Street
admission
$6 general / $4 GBFS or NMA members