The Koker Trilogy The Criterion Collection

Summary Details: Iranian master abbas kiarostami's poetic trilogy of tales that blend reality and fiction'. '.strtoupper('a')bbas kiarostami taste of cherry first came to international attention for this wondrous, slyly self referential series of films set in the rural nor...
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Iranian master abbas kiarostami's poetic trilogy of tales that blend reality and fiction'. '.strtoupper('a')bbas kiarostami taste of cherry first came to international attention for this wondrous, slyly self referential series of films set in the rural northern iranian town of koker'. '.strtoupper('p')oised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the lyrical fables in the koker trilogy exemplify both the gentle humanism and playful sleight of hand that define the director's sensibility'. '.strtoupper('w')ith each successive film, kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind the scenes reality of the film that preceded it, heightening our understanding of the complex network of human relationships that sustain both a movie set and a village'. '.strtoupper('t')he result is a gradual outward zoom that reveals the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary life.includeswhere is the friend's house'? '.strtoupper('1')987 the first film in abbas kiarostami's sublime, interlacing koker trilogy takes a simple premise a boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose school notebook he has accidentally taken and transforms it into a miraculous, child's eye adventure of the everyday'. '.strtoupper('a')s our young hero zigzags determinedly across two towns, aided and sometimes misdirected by those he encounters, his quest becomes both a revealing portrait of rural iranian society in all its richness and complexity and a touching parable about the meaning of personal responsibility'. '.strtoupper('s')ensitive and profound, where is the friend's house'? '.strtoupper('i')s shot through with all the beauty, tension, and wonder a single day can contain.and life goes on 1992 in the aftermath of a 1990 earthquake that left at least thirty thousand dead, abbas kiarostami returned to koker, where his camera surveys not only devastation but also the teeming life in its wake'. '.strtoupper('b')lending fiction and reality into a playful, poignant road movie, and life goes on follows a film director who, along with his son, makes the trek to the region in hopes of finding out if the young star of where is the friend's house'? '.strtoupper('i')s among the survivors, and discovers a resilient community pressing on in the face of tragedy'. '.strtoupper('f')inding beauty in the bleakest of ci'rcumstances, kiarostami crafts a quietly majestic ode to the best of the human spirit.through the olive trees 1994 abbas kiarostami takes metanarrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final instalment of the koker trilogy'. '.strtoupper('u')nfolding behind the scenes of and life goes on, this film traces the complications that arise when the romantic misfortune of one of the actors a young man who pines for the woman cast as his wife, even though, in real life, she will have nothing to do with him creates turmoil on set and leaves the hapless director caught in the middle'. '.strtoupper('a')n ineffably lovely, gentle human comedy steeped in the folkways of iranian village life, through the olive trees peels away layer after layer of artifice as it investigates the elusive, alchemical relationship between cinema and reality.special edition featuresnew 2k digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracksnew audio commentary on and life goes on featuring mehrnaz saeed vafa and jonathan rosenbaum, co authors of abbas kiarostamiabbas kiarostami truths and dreams, a 1994 documentarynew interview with abbas kiarostami's son ahmad kiarostaminew conversation between iranian film scholar jamsheed akrami and film critic godfrey cheshireconversation from 2015 between kiarostami and film festival programmer peter scarletnew english subtitle translationsplus an essay by critic godfrey cheshire and more!

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