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zumrud-watches · 8 months

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Taste of Cherry (1997)

#taste of cherry #movies #stills #Abbas Kiarostami #Homayoun Ershadi

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m--bloop · 2 years

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“It was still dark. I threw the rope over a tree but it didn't catch hold. I tried once, twice but to no avail. So then I climbed the tree and tied the rope on tight. Then I felt something soft under my hand. Mulberries. Deliciously sweet mulberries. I ate one. It was succulent, then a second and third. Suddenly, I noticed that the sun was rising over the mountaintop... What sun, what scenery, what greenery! All of a sudden, I heard children heading off to school. They stopped to look at me. They asked me to shake the tree. The mulberries fell and they ate. I felt happy.”

Taste of Cherry (...طعم گيلاس) dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1997

#taste of cherry #...طعم گيلاس #abbas kiarostami #homayoun ershadi #cinematography #movies #film stills #j #dailyworldcinema #cw suicide

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cypionate60mg · 1 month

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I really appreciated your Crash image post. Your texts make me feel similarly to what the film did the first time I watched it. It's a sort of calm understanding and, beyond it, the thrill of possibility. The fear at first, the awkward laughing, the turning away. But then it stops being that and everything seems to slow down, becoming crystal clear and vibrant. And I caught myself thinking of it more and more, realising there was something alluring there, something I wanted to revisit. One thing was to tolerate the guy I knew I was. Another was to love him. And another, completely different, was to realise we're the same. And my desires are those I thought weren't mine to have. Thank you for figuratively driving me around in a sexy car with one hand on the steering wheel and another on the back of my neck while I looked at photos of beautiful mangled pieces of metal. I wasn't expecting to get aroused and gain further existential understanding of myself, but sometimes things just scratch that itch I suppose and we get lucky to get both. Well, anyway, take care. Excited to see what you write next.

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submareena · 5 months

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Homayoun Ershadi as Mr. Badii in Taste Of Cherry (1997) / Professor Abullah in Pluto (2023) (x)

#just found this facebook page with really interesting visual comparisons to urasawa's works #this might be a stretch but i like it #homayoun ershadi #taste of cherry #pluto #naoki urasawa

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byneddiedingo · 11 months

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Homayoun Ershadi in Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)

Cast: Homayoun Ershadi, Safar Ali Moradi, Mir Hossein Noori, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Elham Imani. Screenplay: Abbas Kiarostami. Cinematography: Homayun Payvar. Film editing: Abbas Kiarostami.

Taste of Cherry won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and has a host of admirers, but Roger Ebert found it "excruciatingly boring" and listed it as one of his "most hated films" on his web site. Having seen the film and read the review, I have to wonder if Ebert was in the wrong mood when he saw and wrote about it. I saw it in relaxed anticipation and found it anything but boring. Not a masterpiece, perhaps, but a strangely haunting film, whose images stayed with me through the following day: the winding dirt roads in the hills outside Tehran; the cascades of bare soil turned up by massive agricultural equipment; the shadow of the protagonist, Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi), projected upon these mounds of dirt; the faces of the men the protagonist tries to enlist in his plan: a young soldier (Safar Ali Moradi), a seminarian (Mir Hossein Noori), the taxidermist (Abdolrahman Bagheri). I was struck by Kiarostami's choice of those three men, ethnic aliens in Iran -- a Kurd, an Afghani, a Turk -- as if to emphasize the inner turmoil that mirrors the external conflicts of the region. I was tantalized by the suspense about what Badii wants the other man to do. And as Ebert points out, we suspect that he is cruising the outskirts of Tehran to find a sexual partner, which, given that homosexuality is a capital offense in Iran, is a frighteningly risky thing to do. And when we learn that Badii wants someone to throw dirt over him after he commits suicide in a grave he has dug for himself, I was intrigued by what has driven him to this brink. Ebert took a literal-minded approach to all of this, wanting to know why we are being led to believe that Badii is gay and to know more about what has driven him to this extremity. Have we not learned long ago not to expect full backstories of characters in literature and film or be able to explicate them in some definitive sense? Isn't that why Kiarostami uses the "distancing" device at the end of showing the film itself being made? I'm content with what it tells us of Badii, and with the emotions and ideas demonstrated by the men he picks up: the young soldier's terror, the seminarian's steadfast faith, the taxidermist's hard-earned wisdom. I was struck by the way we watch Badii at the end through the window of his apartment, as if we will never get any closer, but then see his face as he lies in the hole fleetingly illuminated by lightning. But Taste of Cherry is not so much a character-driven film as a fable: a story about the mysteries of human existence and the interplay of lives. It is full of reverberations of one scene with another and of the events in the film with the political, social, and environmental troubles that haunt our times. It can't be reduced to conventional narrative or even allegorical terms. It took me someplace alien -- i.e., Iran, and the possible last day of a man's life -- and yet deeply, humanly familiar.

#Taste of Cherry #Abbas Kiarostami #Homayoun Ershadi

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infinitemovielist · 2 years

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#Taste of Cherry #movie poster #Abbas Kiarostami #Homayoun Ershadi #Abdolrahman Bagheri #Safar Ali Moradi #Mir Hossein Noori #Watching Kiarostami's films has opened a whole new side of cinema for me #I have a hard time finding the words to explain the way his movies engage me and how different the viewing experience is #And that ending...#I think it will be a long while before the scene depicted in this poster leaves my memory

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cinemacentral666 · 9 months

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Taste of Cherry (1997)

Movie #1,079 • WATCHLIST WEDNESDAYS

This is the very first Iranian movie I've reviewed which is slightly shocking after this many. I thought it was very funny how annoyed Ebert got in his 1-star (!) review...

This is an exercise in patience to some degree (whether you understand "what" the director is doing or not). I think it primarily works because of Homayoun Ershadi's performance in the lead. I felt like you got to know him pretty well. You don't always have to do the 5 W questions for that to happen.

And I dug the ending. Not to make this a review of Ebert's review, but there seems to be a prevalent attitude amongst the old guard of criticism which constantly circles back to some idea of realism being the thing which matters most (unless the film is explicitly trying to be surreal). The pullback is short, subtle and unexpected. I found it to be of great service in place of the ambiguous. It makes you realize just how bizarre the entire setup/conceit actually was from the very start. The movie is philosophical and also metaphorically surreal (people don't often go around looking to pay randos to bury them after they've committed suicide) but presented as the opposite visually: stark static shots of people talking set against an unforgiving, arid landscape. So it's playing a trick on you without you ever really noticing it. And the finale is an apology of sorts. The movie meant no harm.

SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½

PS. I'm eliminating the ¼ and ¾ scores from this point further.

#watchlist wednesdays #abbas kiarostami director #1997 #drama #slow burn #8.5 #🇮🇷#homayoun ershadi #abdolrahman bagheri #afshin khorshid bakhtiari #safar ali moradi #mir hossein noori

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tctmp · 10 months

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A Most Wanted Man: Directed by Anton Corbijn. With Grigoriy Dobrygin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Homayoun Ershadi, Mehdi Dehbi. A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.

#a most wanted man

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youngfcs · 2 years

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hey! tudo bom? acompanho aqui acho que tem mais de um ano e acho tudo incrível :D pode me ajudar a achar um pai e uma mãe pra golshifteh farahani ou pra nazanin boniadi? obrigado!!

Olá, tudo sim e você? Ohhh anon, muito obrigada pelo carinho <3 fico feliz que você tenha gostado! Claro que posso :)

Mãe:

Christiane Amanpour (56-64)

Shohreh Aghdashloo (62-70)

Catherine Bell (48-55)

Niki Karimi (47-52)

Pai:

Eric Etebari (48-56)

Navid Negahban (50-58)

Asghar Farhadi (48-54)

Homayoun Ershadi (67-75)

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