A Taste of Cherry is one of the great works - not just films - about living with and surviving despair.<div><br></div><div>I also love Close-Up (a real life court case reframed as an identity parade in a hall of mirrors) and The Wind Will Carry Us. In fact Certified Copy, Through the Olive Trees, even Like Someone in Love ... Kiarostami so consistently married the complex and multilayered with a real poignancy and grace. <br><br>Will have to check out the film he made based on The Recognitions.<br><br>On Monday, July 4, 2016, Mark Kohut <<a href="mailto:mark.kohut@gmail.com">mark.kohut@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(41,47,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a href="https://twitter.com/SaeedKD" style="color:rgb(136,153,166);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><strong style="color:rgb(41,47,51)">Saeed Kamali Dehghan</strong> â€<span style="font-size:13px;direction:ltr"><span style="color:rgb(177,187,195)">@</span>SaeedKD</span> </a><small style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(136,153,166)"> <a href="https://twitter.com/SaeedKD/status/750043232210419712" title="2:06 PM - 4 Jul 2016" style="color:rgb(136,153,166);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">9m<span style="border:0px!important;font-size:1px!important;min-height:1px!important;overflow:hidden!important;padding:0px!important;width:1px!important">9 minutes ago</span></a></small></div><div style="color:rgb(41,47,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">Giant Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, one of the best filmmakers of the past century and director of Taste of Cherry, dies aged 76.</p><p lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word"><br></p><p lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word"><br></p><p lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">Every movie I've seen, moved me with intellectual excitement and poignance. He actually did a movie that was half an homage, a filming of key themes, from <b>The Recognitions.</b> </p><p lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word"><br></p><p lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">I think <b>A Taste of Cherry </b>affirms Life like, say, <b>A Hard Day's Night</b> can be said to. (It's about a suicide attempt). And so subtly so much else. </p><p lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word"><br></p><p lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">I think of his hat tips to Camus and others in his films. And old traditional Iran against the new. </p><p lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word"><br></p><p lang="en" style="margin:0px;line-height:18px;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">I'm sad now. </p></div></div>
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