Saturday Matinee - Taste of Cherry

For our next Saturday matinee, we are going to watch a minimalist masterpiece by the great Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, Taste of Cherry. 

A tale of one middle-aged man who wishes to die in a society where suicide is considered as an abomination. Driving in the hills above Tehran, he meets an assortment of different characters : Afghans, Kurds, Turks, prisoners of the desert, a soldier, a seminary student and a museum employee, each with reasons to turn down the job : fear, religious scruples and humanist revulsion at a life wilfully squandered. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.