Abbas Kiarostami, the most influential contemporary Iranian filmmaker in the West, died in Paris at age 76. His film Taste of Cherry , which won the Palme d’Or in 1997, is best known for a varied filmography, but with signs and characteristics so unique that allowed him to draw a personal work. Kiarostami suffered a gastrointestinal cancer for which he underwent surgery several times.
He was born in Tehran on June 22, 1940. He never thought of becoming a film director, until he shot his first short film, bread and street , in 1970. children and roads already appeared in his work as an early fascination. graphic designer, graduated from the School of Fine Arts in his city, worked as a painter and publicist, but in the 70 began his real journey. Its popularity grew in doors while the Islamic Revolution (1979), led by Ayatollah Khomeini was brewing. always he maintained his intellectual and religious freedom. From The , his first feature, addressed the issue of suicide, prohibited in most religions.
In the late ’80s began to be recognized outside Iran. Directs Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987) And life goes (1992) and Through the Olive Trees (1994 ), films that became known as the Koker trilogy to be filmed in that town. But these are not his most famous works, suspected of being praised in retrospect, like Close Up (1990), which Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese and Susan Sontag wrote wonders. His most popular work, The taste … , is the Argentine passport.
It was thanks to her that here premiered some of his films. The story of that character who wants to commit suicide and walking with your car marginal slopes of Tehran looking for someone to bury him, won the top prize at Cannes, yes, but also has its origins in a film the most Argentine of Europeans, Ingmar Bergman and a scene “infiltrator” is almost mythological. the poster of Maradona in the box of an Iranian worker
Kiarostami renewed his credentials with the wind will carry us , Award jury in Venice. And in the new century realism it alternated with experimental films. In 2001, after the attacks on the Twin Towers, they were denied a visa to enter the United States. A few years later, his film Certified Copy would be banned in Iran. With Juliette Binoche in the lead, who received the best actress award at Cannes, was her first shoot outside their country.
“There is a great social and political insecurity in Iran, and one can not commit to schedule work a year because we do not know what will happen, “he then explained to Clarin . The film marked a return to narrative cinema after Shirin , symbolic work, in which 114 Iranian actresses attend the dramatized projection of a medieval poem. We continue the work through the expressiveness of the actresses, their tears and smiles in a movie theater. “People are curious … but .. .creen producers and directors that viewers should become stupid consumers,” he complained.
Shirin was here in August 2014, at the appropriate cycle roads Abbas Kiarostami which screened at Proa. A marginal circuit for an author who was never popular. His latest film, Like Someone in Love (2012), filmed in Japan, was only Bafici. Paradoxes of fame for an author who disbelieved of the representation of death in Western cinema. “Mourning the death is absurd, what is mourn the absence of the friend”.
The actress Catherine Deneuve with the director. In May 1997″ Taste of Cherry “shared the Palme d’Or with” The Eel “by Shohei Imamura. Isabelle Adjani was the president of the jury that awarded Kiarostami. that year he also competed Wenders films, Haneke, Kar-wai, Egoyan, Winterbottom, Ang Lee, Bellocchio …
“taste of cherry” was an unexpected success in our country. Released 13 August 1998 saw 123,853 spectators. it took more public than “the Lord of the horses”, Redford, “Spice World”, with the Spice Girls, and “cop Land” with De Niro and Stallone, for example .
In his words
“Good cinema is what we believe, and bad cinema is that we can not believe “
” my form of expression is full of complications and mystery because that is my perception of life “
” the cinema seats make vague people.. wait they are given all the information. But for me, the question marks are scores of life. “
” I would say that no film is apolitical. Any film anchored in a society and concerned about the human being is political. “
“to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.”
“we are unable to look at what we have before us, unless it is within a framework.”
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