RIP Abbas Kiarsotami.

[Johnny Marr]

A Taste of Cherry is one of the great works - not just films - about living
with and surviving despair.

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.

Will have to check out the film he made based on The Recognitions.

On Monday, July 4, 2016, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Saeed Kamali Dehghan* ‏@SaeedKD  <https://twitter.com/SaeedKD> 9m9
> minutes ago <https://twitter.com/SaeedKD/status/750043232210419712>
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> Giant Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, one of the best filmmakers of
> the past century and director of Taste of Cherry, dies aged 76.
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> 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.*
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> 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.
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> I think of his hat tips to Camus and others in his films. And old
> traditional Iran against the new.
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> I'm sad now.
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