RIP Abbas Kiarsotami.

[Mark Kohut]

Certified Copy is the one with The Recognitions borrowings, if I saw it right. some thematic tropes. ( had just reread The Recognitons before I saw that one so, either some projection or some immediate ability to pick it up) 

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> On Jul 5, 2016, at 8:06 PM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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  9m9 minutes ago
>> 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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