Taste of Cherry

Taste of Cherry

  • Director: Abbas Kiarostami
  • Countries of origin: Iran, France
  • Language: Persian
  • Release date: November 26, 1997
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: El sabor de la cereza
  • "A Taste of Cherry" is a psychological drama film released by Zeitgeist Films on October 10, 1997, directed by Abbas Kiarostami , Homayoun Ershadi , Abdullahman Bahri, Mir Hussain Nuo Li and other starring.
    The film tells the story of Buddy, who hates life, and gradually realizes the meaning of life in the process of looking for a kind person who can help him with his funeral.   The film was released in Italy on October 10, 1997. In 1997, the film won the Palme d'Or for best film in the main competition unit of the 50th Cannes Film Festival. 

    Details

    • Release date November 26, 1997
    • Filming locations Tehran, Iran
    • Production companies Abbas Kiarostami Productions, CiBy 2000, Kanun parvaresh fekri

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $10,923

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    • By Vaughn 2022-08-03 21:19:23

      Taste of Cherry: Meaning of Life and Death

      The few Abbas films I have seen, from "Where" to "Olive Tree" to this one, are all "searching" stories spread out by the protagonist through "on the road". This movie is about "searching for" life (or the meaning of life and death): Buddy, who desperately tried to give up his life, gained another insight into life in the process of finding the burial man who buried himself. This can be seen from Buddy's repeated emphasis to Bagley that "you...

    • By Natalie 2022-04-24 07:01:24

      Think so much, let's work hard

      When I was watching the film, I just received a photo of my father who was building a road in my hometown. My father asked me, "Why do you have to work so hard to get into college? Why can you sleep with the lights on and off when you were young?" He didn't say anything else. , I didn't ask, and the chat record before that was a video feed of his practice, and I haven't watched it.

      He probably also noticed my boredom with life. In fact, why I watch this...

    • By Cathryn 2022-04-24 07:01:24

      The meaning of life is that the world generates greater connections

      After watching this movie, I actually didn't fully understand it, but I could understand that this man always wanted to commit suicide, and he met three people who could help him commit suicide, one was a young soldier, and the other was a seminary student. The last one is the old man. The attitude of the first young soldier is to avoid indifference, the attitude of the second seminary is to do his best, but the third old man saves the man with his own experience, it is possible that the...

    • By Emory 2022-04-24 07:01:24

      Reason for suicide and redemption

      If a person wants to ask others to help him die, there is no reason. Human beings are full of curiosity about the reason for a person’s suicide. Look at the most frequently asked question in the comments on suicide news – how did he die? People are not interested in the indicators of the body before death, what people are curious about is the story of this man's death. But this time, the male protagonist who seeks death avoided talking about this reason, only saying that it is...

    • By Elfrieda 2022-04-24 07:01:24

      The movie ends with Abbas

      Before writing the first word related to the film, we need to ask ourselves why Godard said that "the film ends with Abbas". Thinking about this issue affects the perception of the film to some extent. judge. It must be admitted that if you look directly at the text of the movie, or write it into a novel without changing a word, the novel version may inevitably fall to the point where it is impossible to avoid. But it's not a story, it's a movie, we often confuse the two, but...

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    • By Jerrod 2022-03-29 09:01:08

      "Survivor" is about driving down the road in search of earthquake survivors. The Taste of Cherry is a man who drives down the road seeking to bury himself. It is as simple as only one person, one car and one mountain road. They have no answer in the end, whether to live or...

    • By Assunta 2022-03-29 09:01:08

      Save the net. Bury me when I die. Camus said that there is only one really serious philosophical problem: suicide. The wasteland outside the car window, the starry sky and the greenery in the last five minutes. The subtitles made me start to struggle with the relationship between cherries and...

    • By Casey 2022-03-29 09:01:08

      Archives. The plot is unbelievably weak, and the only moving part is the change that the protagonist shows immediately after he has actually decided on the person who will help him collect the body: let the old man knock himself a few more times, he may fall asleep; start to pay attention to the scenery under the setting sun (this light makes him fall asleep). I care, and I want to live where there is always magic hour light), children running, jet fumes. But this ending still can't justify the...

    • By Anthony 2022-03-29 09:01:08

      Although he also hopes to express his emotions in a down-to-earth manner, the level of attack of Abbas's dialogue is far from that of Bergman...

    • By Madalyn 2022-03-29 09:01:08

      1. No matter how difficult we are, we still have our own principles and firm beliefs, and we will not be shaken by the temptation of foreign objects; 2. Life is hard, we often complain, but we still live and believe in the charm of life. I believe that life is only a good time; 3. The sunset is beautiful, the thoughts are messy, and the heart is very...

    Movie plot

    Buddy ( Homayoun Ershadi ) is a middle-aged man who hates his life. He digs a hole under a cherry tree and prepares to commit suicide and bury it here. In order to find a kind person who can bury his body after his death, Buddy drove around the suburbs of Tehran to search. Along the way he met Afghans, Kurds, Turks, prisoners, soldiers, seminary students and museum staff. He told the passengers of his plans, saying that he had dug the...
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    The whole film tells about the activities of a person preparing to end his life, which is slightly monotonous and more abstract than director Abbas's previous works, but this work is full of poetic feelings and philosophical thinking. Although the film focuses on suicide, it is not to express world-weariness, but to use death as an incision to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of life. Everyone in the film who rejects Buddy...
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    Movie quotes

    • Mr. Bagheri: If you look at the four seasons, each season brings fruit. In summer, there's fruit, in autumn, too. Winter brings different fruit and spring, too. No mother can fill her fridge with such a variety of fruit for her children. No mother can do as much for her children as God does for His creatures. You want to refuse all that? You want to give it all up? You want to give up the taste of cherries?

    • Mr. Badii: I don't want to give you a gun to kill me. I'm giving you a spade, a spade.

    • Mr. Bagheri: When you want to help someone, you have to do it properly, with all your heart. It's better... more just and more reasonable.