Taste of Cherry
Original title: Ta'm e guilass · Turkish title: Kirazın Tadı
“Do you want to give up the taste of cherries?”
1997 · 1 h 35 min
Directed by 
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas KiarostamiCast
Homayoun Ershadi Abdolrahman Bagheri
Credits
Written by: Abbas Kiarostami
Produced by: Alain Depardieu Abbas Kiarostami
Plot
A man drives around the outskirts of Tehran looking for someone to help him with a grim request. It shared the Palme d'Or.
Sinekatalog’s take
Abbas Kiarostami follows a man driving around Tehran, looking for someone to bury him after his suicide. Spare and ambiguous, it is a thoughtful, challenging film, and it won the Palme d'Or.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.7 / 10 (45,381 votes)
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