Taste of Cherry | Kiarostami at The Cinematheque

New Restoration
TASTE OF CHERRY (TA’AM-E GILAS)
Iran 1997
Abbas Kiarostami

Kiarostami’s exquisite meditation on mortality was co-winner (with Imamura’s THE EEL) of the 1997 Palme d’Or at Cannes. Employing minimalist means to profoundly moving ends, it follows a middle-aged, middle-class man, quietly resolved to some desperate purpose, as he criss-crosses the rural outskirts of Tehran in his expensive SUV. He gives lifts to a series of strangers—a Kurdish soldier, an Afghani seminarian, a Turkish taxidermist—and then offers each a large sum of money if they will assist him in a terrible task. Homayoun Ershadi has the unsettling lead role. Kiarostami’s celebrated poetic humanism is everywhere in evidence; the remarkable hall-of-mirrors formalism, the blurring of fiction and documentary, of his previous features is here held in check until the film’s astonishing, enigmatic finale. TASTE OF CHERRY is an unforgettable work.

November 1 (Friday) 6:30 pm
November 2 (Saturday) 8:45 pm
November 6 (Wednesday) 8:10 pm

Adult $12
Student / Senior $10

Rated PG
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“And Life Goes On: The Films of Abbas Kiarostami”
The singular cinema of the Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016), one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the past three decades, is celebrated with this near-comprehensive retrospective.
https://thecinematheque.ca/series/and-life-goes-on-the-films-of-abbas-kiarostami

WHERE IS THE FRIEND’S HOUSE?
(KHANEH-YE DOUST KOJAST?)
October 18 (Friday) 6:30 pm
October 20 (Sunday) 4:30 pm
October 21 (Monday) 6:30 pm
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/where-is-the-friends-house

AND LIFE GOES ON
(ZENDEGI VA DIGAR HICH)
October 18 (Friday) 8:15 pm
October 20 (Sunday) 6:30 pm
October 24 (Thursday) 6:30 pm
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/and-life-goes-on

THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES
(ZIR-E DARAKHTAN-E ZEYTON)
October 19 (Saturday) 6:30 pm
October 20 (Sunday) 8:20 pm
October 24 (Thursday) 8:20 pm
October 27 (Sunday) 4:00 pm
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/through-the-olive-trees

CLOSE-UP (NAMA-YE NAZDIK)
October 19 (Saturday) 8:30 pm
October 23 (Wednesday) 6:30 pm
October 27 (Sunday) 8:10 pm
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/close-up

KIAROSTAMI FOR KIDS! PROGRAM 1
October 20 (Sunday) 11:00 am
Special Ticket Price:
$6 (+ free popcorn) for kids 13 and under
$10 for everyone else!
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/kiarostami-for-kids-program-1

HOMEWORK (MASHGH-E SHAB)
October 21 (Monday) 8:10 pm
October 27 (Sunday) 6:30 pm
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/homework

THE TRAVELLER (MOSAFER) +
THE BREAD AND ALLEY (NAN VA KOUTCHEH)
October 23 (Wednesday) 8:30 pm
October 28 (Monday) 6:30 pm
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/the-traveller-bread-alley

KIAROSTAMI: TWO SHORT FEATURES
A WEDDING SUIT (LEBASI BARAYE ARUSI) +
CASE NO. 1, CASE NO. 2
(GHAZIEH-E SHEKL-E AVAL, GHAZIEH-E SHEKL-E DOU WOM)
October 28 (Monday) 8:15 pm
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/kiarostami-two-short-features

TASTE OF CHERRY (TA’AM-E GILAS)
November 1 (Friday) 6:30 pm
November 2 (Saturday) 8:45 pm
November 6 (Wednesday) 8:10 pm
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/taste-of-cherry

THE WIND WILL CARRY US (BAD MA RA KHAHAD BORD)
November 1 (Friday) 8:30 pm
November 2 (Saturday) 6:30 pm
November 3 (Sunday) 6:30 pm
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/the-wind-will-carry-us

ABC AFRICA
November 3 (Sunday) 8:45 pm
November 4 (Monday) 6:30 pm
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/abc-africa

FIVE DEDICATED TO OZU (PANJ)
November 4 (Monday) 8:15 pm
November 6 (Wednesday) 6:30 pm
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/five-dedicated-to-ozu