Taste of Cherry 1997 123movies

Watch: طعم گيلاس 1997 123movies, Full Movie Online – Middle-aged Mr.Badii is planning to commit suicide and desperately seeks anyone to assist him – he has already dug out the grave in the mountains, but the assistant will have to bury him when he will do the deed. He asks Kurd soldier, Afghan seminarian, but everyone refuses by some reason. Finally he finds an old Turkish taxidermist, who has a sick son and previously attempted suicide himself, and he agrees to assist Badii..
Plot: A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
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Ratings:

	7.7/10 Votes: 31,661
	82% | RottenTomatoes
	80/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 413 Popularity: 9.191 | TMDB

Reviews:

A great movie about life & death
I have watched many films dealing with the theme “life & death”. But this is the greatest one. The story is simple (even incomplete) but I think Abbas tells us too much.

Through the dialogue between different people from different classes, everyone has his own attitude about “life & death”. I think we can’t say which is right & which is wrong. Abbas only gives it to us & let us think for ourselves.

Every scene is simple & ordinary, but has a certain strange fascination. I have seen “Through The Olive Trees” before (also directed by Abbas). To be honest, I don’t like it, although it’s said to be a good film. But this one is different. “Go see it” is what I want to say.

Needlessly, relentlessly boring
In the same way that actors refer to Macbeth as “The Scottish Play” to avoid the taboo of mentioning the title, I like to refer to this as “The Iranian Film”. It’s a movie of such unparalleled tedium that to pronounce its name may drive people to enter a monastic order in search of stimulus. It is like watching paint remain wet.

Astonishingly, A Taste of Cherry (as it translates) won the Palm D’Or at Cannes. It was a decision motivated by politics and pseudery that exemplifies the worst Cannes jury decisions. (“Zut alors. Zis film, it was made in Iran.” “Mon dieu, what’s it like?” “Well, it’s quite boring, but it could be the start of a Middle Eastern renaissance.”)

Critics have fawned over the film for its simplicity, but the 95 minutes is a vacuum of Proustian proportions and was, for me, substantially less stimulating than watching the back of the head of the man sat in front of me at the cinema.

No one can argue that this film is not boring. It’s possible to contend that boredom was Abbas Kiarostami’s intention, but if you’re going to make that argument then you need to justify it. Does the uneventful nature of the film provide a useful backdrop to the subject? Absolutely not.

The plot – a parable depicting a man’s quest to find someone who will bury him after he commits suicide – moves with glacial speed. Each candidate explains at length the metaphysical problems with being complicit in such an act, but the monologues are no more sophisticated (and a great deal less articulate) than a pub conversation with a clutch of philosophy students.

The most depressing thing is the way it is filmed. At the beginning of most of the shots, you see the main character’s jeep trundling from one side of the screen to the other. “Nothing interesting is happening now,” you think to yourself as the protagonist explains yet again what he wants his passenger to do, “but perhaps we will reach a dramatic moment at the end of the shot.” The jeep duly reaches the end of the frame, only for the film to cut to a near-identical shot of the same jeep crossing the same drab and dusty landscape with the same uneventful monologue.

Even if you strip away the boredom, there is precious little underneath unless you engage in the most polo-necked type of film criticism. I have read one review that claimed that the protagonist’s stone-faced performance was “showing by concealing”. Another suggested that the failure to explain the character’s motivation for killing himself made him an “everyman”. There is, I suggest, an element of the emperor’s new clothes about this.

A Taste of Cherry deals with metaphysics, but that does not make it profound. Viewers who can sit through it are open minded, but that does not make them intellectual. Don’t go and see this on the say-so of an impressionable pseud. Don’t go and see it at all.

Other Information:

Original Language fa
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Abbas Kiarostami
Writer Abbas Kiarostami
Actors Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari
Country Iran, France
Awards 4 wins & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,765 m
Negative Format Video (last shots), 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP), 35 mm