The Report | Kiarostami at The Cinematheque

THE REPORT (GOZARESH)
Iran 1977
Abbas Kiarostami

The rarest feature in our Kiarostami retrospective, this disquieting 1977 drama — the director’s first film with professional actors, and first made outside Kanoon, Iran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults — provides a fascinating snapshot of middle-class life in Tehran during the anxious final years of the Shah’s regime. It concerns a civil servant (Kurosh Afsharpanah) accused of corruption at the same time he contends with the collapse of his marriage. Shohreh Aghdashloo (now based in America, and an Oscar-nominee for her role in 2003’s House of Sand and Fog) impresses as the man’s wife. The portrait of an unhappy marriage, Kiarostami later admitted, was autobiographical. Two-time Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi, director of A Separation and The Salesman, cites this assured, observant example of social cinema as a major influence on his own films.

November 7 (Thursday) 8:20 pm
November 18 (Monday) 8:15 pm

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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

TEN (DAH)
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/ten
November 7 (Thursday) 6:30 pm
November 8 (Friday) 8:35 pm

THE REPORT (GOZARESH)
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/the-report
November 7 (Thursday) 8:20 pm
November 18 (Monday) 8:15 pm

CERTIFIED COPY (COPIE CONFORME) (G)
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/certified-copy
November 8 (Friday) 6:30 pm
November 14 (Thursday) 6:30 pm

SHIRIN
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/shirin
November 14 (Thursday) 8:35 pm
November 19 (Tuesday) 6:30 pm

TEN ON 10 (DAH ROOYE DAH)
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/10-on-ten
November 19 (Tuesday) 8:30 pm

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (RAIKU SAMUWAN IN RABU) (PG)
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/like-someone-in-love
December 3 (Tuesday) 6:30 pm
December 4 (Wednesday) 8:45 pm

24 FRAMES
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2019/24-frames
December 3 (Tuesday) 8:40 pm
December 4 (Wednesday) 6:30 pm