The Koker Trilogy

“The Koker Trilogy, hello? Kiarostami, I don’t want to say his name wrong, was the, you know, original gangster when it came to those kind of beautiful films that are so poetic and... Just the boy with– you know, running back and forth with the... He had the Homework and just, it’s just so... I know he didn’t use a lot of real actors, so it was just nice to see the... Those films you can just watch on repeat over and over again.”

“It’s Abbas Kiarostami. Here’s the trilogy. So... I just thought about one, but I’m happy there’s a trilogy here. I was thinking about Where Is the Friend’s House? My Friend’s House? But here I also find Through the Olive Trees. So I’m very happy. And Life Goes On. This moment with the flower... It’s cool, in Where Is the Friend’s House?, is really beautiful. And it’s kind of simplicity lesson.”

“The Koker Trilogy is incredible. The second film here, And Life Goes On, is really, like, beyond the beyond. Just so beautiful and touching. He just takes children very seriously, especially in Where is the Friend's House? But also in And Life Goes On and Through the Olive Trees is a great movie about the social politics of, like, being on a movie set.”

“Kiarostami. I first saw in Istanbul Film Festival his movie Where Is the Friend's House? And I didn't know Kiarostami at that time and I liked the movie a lot and it was incredible to me and next years when I come across Through the Olive Trees it was a huge shock for me. It didn't look like any film I saw before. It was completely a different type of cinema, but I liked it a lot.”

“So The Koker Trilogy the protagonist of Where Is the Friend's House? Might be one of my top five most relatable protagonists in movies up right next with WALL·E the protagonist is this little boy who accidentally took his friend's notebook so the whole movie is he's deeply worried that the friend doesn't have the notebook to do his Homework so he has to go find where is the friend's House and the way that for him the stakes are so high but to the entire Village is so heartbreaking...”

“I'm going to go with this one because I picked it up early. The Koker Trilogy. I'm going to do that as a parting gift of creative beauty.”

“I’m going to start here with the Kiarostami Koker Trilogy, which I’m absolutely going to take. Where Is the Friend’s House?, which is my very, very favorite Kiarostami film, but I also love Through the Olive Trees. And he made other great movies, don’t get me wrong, and we now have great Iranian filmmakers who are making incredible cinema to this day.”