Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Taste of Cherry
- Commentary: Under construction.
You'll notice in his review attached to the title of this post that Roger Ebert literally hated this movie, subsequently adding it to his list of most hated movies of all time. I was shocked to discover this, as I saw the movie long before I was aware of Roger Ebert's opinion and was swept into it. I don't always agree with Roger Ebert, can nit-pick his reviews with the best of them, but this review of his greatly disappointed me. I've since had a hard time understanding how he missed the nuance, humanity and visual beauty of this movie.
Roger Ebert's site, though, contains a retrospective of Kiaarostami's work written by the site's staff of editors which quietly repudiates Ebert's opinion of this movie and was written a few years after Ebert's death.
More later.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Homayoun Ershadi Mr. Badii Abdolrahman Bagheri Mr. Bagheri Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari The Soldier Mir Hossein Noori The Seminarian
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 1997
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami.
Labels: Criterion6
