RIP Abbas Kiarsotami.

[Mark Kohut]

*Saeed Kamali Dehghan* ‏@SaeedKD  <https://twitter.com/SaeedKD> 9m9 minutes
ago <https://twitter.com/SaeedKD/status/750043232210419712>

Giant Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, one of the best filmmakers of the
past century and director of Taste of Cherry, dies aged 76.



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 *The Recognitions.*


I think *A Taste of Cherry *affirms Life like, say, *A Hard Day's Night*
can be said to. (It's about a suicide attempt). And so subtly so much else.


I think of his hat tips to Camus and others in his films. And old
traditional Iran against the new.


I'm sad now.
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