Paris, France .- As in the case of Rossellini or Godard, there will be a before and an after Abbas Kiarostami. Iranian filmmaker died in France from cancer at age 76 is one of the largest in the world.
The director, winner of the Palme d’Or in 1997 for “Taste of Cherry”, had traveled to France last week for treatment after undergoing several operations in his country between February and April, told the ISNA agency.
Kiarostami died late Monday at a private hospital in Paris, reported AFP various sources .
the official agency IRNA said his body will be repatriated for burial in Iran.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hailed the memory of filmmaker highlighting his “different and deep look” life.
“Your call for peace and friendship will endure in the seventh art,” said Rohani in a tweet.
“With innovative, modern and beautiful works, brought a new definition of cinema and remained at the top the name of Iran in the artistic circles of the world “, Iranian Culture Minister Ali Janati said for his part.
on Tuesday, local 22h00 (17H30 GMT ), all cinemas in Iran interrupt the projection to honor and pray for the filmmaker.
Kiarostami had been invited this month to integrate the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars.
“Abbas is not only the largest Iranian filmmaker, the Rossellini Tehran, the seeker finds, he was also a photographer inspired. Embodied the art, “he tweeted former president of the Cannes Film Festival Gilles Jacob.
Born in Tehran in 1940, within a modest family, Kiarostami was unveiled along with the generation of Iranian directors the seventies, known as the New Wave.
the awards garnered in the most important festivals in the world conferred upon him worldwide notoriety, especially from “through the olive Trees” (1994).
After the 1979 revolution remained in the country, but realized many of its projects abroad, tolerated by the religious regime.
Fictions or documentary, short and feature films, altogether more 40 titles make up a filmography that is characterized by a discreet style, a somewhat somber realism, a delicate picture and sidestepped humor.
“it is part of those very few filmmakers who have been a before and after for cinema, “said Frédéric Bonnaud, director of the French Cinematheque.
” An inventor “
” It was an inventor because I was to combine certain realism, talking a lot about their country and of the children of their country, even knowing that cinema is a show that can manipulate reality, “he added.
a tireless worker, fractious, was easily recognizable by its large glasses tinted windows.
the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1997 for “taste of cherry”, about the desire to live and the fragility of a man of 50 years caused problems in Iran because the actress Catherine Deneuve kissed by giving the prize.
“Without him, I never could have done ‘Persepolis’” said artist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, who met him in person in France after admiring his films Iran.
“In Europe his films had been and was no longer considered to Iranian terrorists, but human beings. It opened the way for a whole generation of Iranian artists. We owe all of us, “he told AFP.
” It had its own language, its style. He was very modest, but it was the modesty of the people who are confident, “he added sadly.
” He made much of his career in Iran, reproached him that was not more political. But his films are, of feminism, suicide … speak, “he argued.
The Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won an Oscar with” Nader and Simin, a separation, “said the British newspaper The Guardian I was totally “shocked” by the news.
“it was more than a filmmaker,” Farhadi said. “It was a modern mystic, both in movies and in his private life.”
Farhadi, the success of Kiarostami paved the way for the next generation of Iranian filmmakers.
” it is a sad day for Iran and for his followers around the world now, today we lost a great man, “he tweeted turn Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti (” About Elly “).
” he only changed the image of Iran, “tweeted another Iranian actress, Golshifteh Farahani, who just worked with American Jim Jarmusch in” Paterson “.
” Your raw material was reality but worked only on the basis of questioning and doubt, something unbearable for those who harbor doubts as religious, “said Frédéric Bonnaud
Many followers shared on Twitter a phrase from Jean-Luc Godard.” cinema is born with Griffith and ends with Kiarostami “.
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