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Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e Guilass) (1997)

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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 1

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Co-winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, The Taste of Cherry is the venerable Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's examination of life, death and the small miracles in between. Homayoun Ershadistars as Mr. Badii, a middle-aged man wishing to kill himself; driving his Range Rover across the arid outskirts of Tehran, he searches for someone to aid him in his final hours, someone who will agree to bury his body if he succeeds in his mission -- a planned overdose of sleeping

Unrated, 1 hr. 38 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Abbas Kiarostami

Jun 8, 1999

Zeitgeist Films

All Critics (36) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (5) | DVD (7)

Appropriately languid and uniquely seductive.

July 24, 2001 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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Has a visual style that seems rudimentary but becomes increasingly hypnotic and resonant.

July 24, 2001 Comment
Film.com
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The film is such a lifeless drone that we experience it only as a movie.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comments (6)
Chicago Sun-Times
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The talk flows persuasively; the picture pulses with art and humanity.

January 1, 2000 Comment
TIME Magazine
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Kiarostami is in no rush, but the respect and love he shows for his characters, and the confidence and simplicity of his technique, make Taste of Cherry a satisfying experience.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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Kiarastomi, like no other filmmaker, has a vision of human scale that is simultaneously epic and precisely minuscule.

January 1, 2000 Comment
New York Times
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Taste of Cherry confirmed Kiarostami as the most acclaimed director of Iran's rich film culture...

December 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Turner Classic Movies Online | Comment
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Kiarostami's insistence on putting a frame around his vision keeps the freedom of interpretation--and the responsibility for it--in the hands of the viewer.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | Comment

Taste of Cherry might be Kiarostami's most difficult film.

March 6, 2007 Full Review Source: House Next Door | Comment
House Next Door

An enduring meditation on living life. A great film.

July 8, 2004 Comment

The #1 U.S. release of 1998: 'A sublime and patient film...[Kiarostami] handles his profound material flawlessly.'

January 10, 2003 Full Review Source: Nick's Flick Picks | Comment
Nick's Flick Picks

That Kiarostami keeps us guessing and caring to the very end as to how Mr. Badii will answer these questions, and that he accomplishes this concern on our parts with a startling spareness, is nothing less than Divine.

January 7, 2003 Full Review | Comment
Critics Inc./America Online

Que seja aberto a interpretações é um dos pontos positivos de 'Gosto de Cereja'. Que se feche de maneira tão terrível é seu - talvez - único ponto negativo.

May 31, 2002 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | Comment
Cinema em Cena

Simplicity often leads to profundity, but A Taste of Cherry (especially the ending) represents lazy cinema that has been overrated by too many.

February 3, 2002 Full Review Source: ToxicUniverse.com | Comment (1)
ToxicUniverse.com

While it's interminably slow and I still haven't quite figured out why they went with the copout ending, I can't say it's not an interesting film.

July 24, 2001 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment (1)
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Audience Reviews for Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e Guilass)

Taste Of Cherry director Abbas Kiarostami has effectively communicated life in its richest complexity that solicits insights and persuades an introspection. An art house film masterpiece. Burrowing.

September 10, 2011
Jan Marc Macababayao

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The minimalistic visual style gives us the space and time to contemplate the story and characters we're watching.

October 11, 2010
robfearon

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Foreign Titles

  • Der Geschmack der Kirsche (DE)
  • A Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e guilass) (UK)
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