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| Abbas
Kiarostami |
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| Director /
Screenwriter / Editor / Producer / Cinematographer |
| 1940 - |
| Born June 22, Teheran, Iran |
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Production Country: Iran, France |
| Key Genres:
Drama, Docudrama, Avant-garde/Experimental |
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Collaborators: Ali
Reza Zarrin (Producer), Marin Karmitz (Producer), Farhad Kheradmand
(Leading Player), Homayun Payvar (Cinematographer), Farhad Saba
(Cinematographer), Peyman Yazdanian (Composer) |
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Highly Recommended:
A Taste of
Cherry (1997), The Wind Will Carry Us
(1999) |
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Recommended: Where
is the Friend's Home? (1987), Homework (1989), Close-Up (1989), And Life Goes On...
(1992), Through the Olive
Trees (1994), Ten (2002) |
| Links:
[
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [ Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[ Strictly
Film School ] [
Wikipedia ] [
Zeitgeist
Films Biography ] [
Rouge
Article (2006) ] |
| Books:
[ Abbas
Kiarostami (Contemporary Film Directors) ] [ Walking
with the Wind ] [
Abbas Kiarostami ] [
The Cinema Of Abbas Kiarostami ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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Greatest Films: Where is the Friend's Home? (1987), Close-Up (1989), And Life Goes
On... (1992), Through the Olive Trees (1994), A Taste of Cherry (1997),
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) |
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
Ten (2002) |
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"The
fact that Iranian cinema is considered one of the best in the
world is mainly due to Abbas Kiarostami, whose films play
brilliantly with audiences' perceptions of cinema...Although
Kiarostami has said, "I don't invent material. I just watch and
take it from the daily life of people around me, " his realism
is carefully constructed." -
Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006) |
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"Kiarostami
studied fine art and worked as a graphic designer before making
his directorial debut with The Bread and the Alley
(1970). A key figure in Iranian film-making, he eschews
conventional narrative and professional actors to offer
deceptively simple poetic reflections on everyday life and death
in his country.." -
(Chambers Film Factfinder, 2006) |
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"The
films of Iranian master Kiarostami, while succeeding partly as
oblique but illuminating reflections of his country's recent
history, occupy a more fertile territory somewhere between
documentary and self-reflexive, modernist drama...Kiarostami's
humane compassion for his characters shines bright, his simple
compositions and stories and long takes a mark of deep respect
for their quiet integrity and strength of spirit." - Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999) |
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