Taste of Cherry (1997)
Note: this print runs 70 minutes against a recorded 95 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Homayoun Ershadi
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Taste of Cherry (Persian: طعم گیلاس..., Ta’m-e gīlās...) is a 1997 Iranian minimalist drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and starring Homayoun Ershadi as a middle-aged Tehran man who drives through a city suburb in search of someone willing to carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, which it shared with The Eel.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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