Taste of Cherry

Abbas Kiarostami, 1997

Spine #45

Picked by 2 guests

Drama

Criterion TMDB

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Written by Abbas Kiarostami

Cinematography Homayun Payvar

Edited by Abbas Kiarostami

Cast Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Safar Ali Moradi, Mir Hossein Noori, Elham Imani, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Ahmad Ansari

Picked by

Griffin Dunne actor

“Oh, yeah. Gotta get that. Okay, this is Taste of Cherry. You know, I’ve been seeing a… I’ve been seeing a woman, she’s one of the great cineastes of all time, for a couple of years now. And one of the very first conversations we had was, “What are your favorite movies?” This came up. And we’re still together. It’s about suicide, but it’s about life. It’s about the reaffirmation of life.”

Griffin Dunne

Agnes Varda director

“And then that one of my favorite film, Kiarostami, The Taste of Cherry. Because you know the thing about the desire to die and we know that we are dust we'll come back to dust but he made it in such a huge set of stone dust and the man trying to find his own way and the way he tried to be helped and then the strength of life and the life the Taste of Cherry wins over I love that film really...”

Agnes Varda