Taste of Cherry (1997)

Original title

طعم گيلاس

Directed by

Abbas Kiarostami

Genre

drama film, road movie

Country

Iran

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

S

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 711 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A middle-aged man drives around the outskirts of Tehran looking for someone to bury him after he kills himself. He meets several people along the way and engages them in conversation about his plan.

slow-burncontemplativebleakquietsolemnunsettlingcerebralhypnotic

What happens

Taste of Cherry (Persian: طعم گیلاس..., Ta’m-e gīlās...) is a 1997 Iranian minimalist drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and starring Homayoun Ershadi as a middle-aged Tehran man who drives through a city suburb in search of someone willing to carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, which it shared with The Eel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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