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Abbas Kiarostami
Movie review • Close Up by Abbas Kiarostami : beyond truth and lying
In Tehran, a journalist from Sorush magazine thinks he has a scoop after discovering a curious case of deception: he has just learned that a certain Sabzian pretended to be the filmmaker Moshen Makhmalbaf to an Iranian bourgeois family, that he convinced to make in the mo…
Abbas Kiarostami
Movie review • Taste of cherry : An Open grave by Abbas Kiarostami
A man in his car drives through an ochre, dry and dusty city somewhere in Iran. His gaze scrutinizes passers-by, looking for someone or something. Great stripping to evoke the theme of death and suicide among the Iranian people. The earth is yellow, the grass is yellow, the tr…
