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Abbas Kiarostami  

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Director / Screenwriter / Editor / Producer / Cinematographer
1940 - 
Born June 22, Teheran, Iran
Key Production Country: Iran, France
Key Genres: Drama, Docudrama, Avant-garde/Experimental
Key Collaborators: Ali Reza Zarrin (Producer), Marin Karmitz (Producer), Farhad Kheradmand (Leading Player), Homayun Payvar (Cinematographer), Farhad Saba (Cinematographer), Peyman Yazdanian (Composer)
Highly Recommended: A Taste of Cherry (1997), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
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 ]
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1,000 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)
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: Ten (2002)
 
Close-Up (1989)A Taste of Cherry (1997)The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)Where is the Friend's Home? (1987)
 
     
  "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)  
     
  "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)  
     
  "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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