A Taste of Cherry is a 1997 Iranian film written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, following Mr. Badii, a middle-aged man who drives through the hills outside Tehran seeking someone willing to bury him after his planned suicide, offering the job to a series of passengers he picks up along the way. Shot largely inside a moving car with long, contemplative takes, the film withholds Badii's reasons for wanting to die and instead builds its meaning through the passengers' differing responses to his request. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, shared with Shohei Imamura's The Eel, and is regarded as one of the central works of the Iranian New Wave.
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Does A Taste of Cherry reveal what Mr. Badii decides?
The ending leaves Mr. Badii's choice unknown.
No. The film ends with camcorder footage of Abbas Kiarostami and the film crew filming A Taste of Cherry, and this closing footage leaves Badii's choice unknown. Viewers are left without a confirmed answer about what happens to him.
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Taste of Cherry (Persian: طعم گیلاس..., Ta’m-e gīlās...) is a 1997 Iranian minimalist drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and starring Homayoun Ershadi as a middle-aged Tehran man who drives through a city suburb in search of someone willing to carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide.
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A Taste of Cherry is a 1997 Iranian film written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, following Mr. Badii, a middle-aged man who drives through the hills outside Tehran seeking someone willing to bury him after his planned suicide, offering the job to a series of passengers he picks up along the way.
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The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, which it shared with The Eel.
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Taste of Cherry (Persian: طعم گیلاس..., Ta’m-e gīlās...) is a 1997 Iranian minimalist drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and starring Homayoun Ershadi as a middle-aged Tehran man who drives through a city suburb in search of someone willing to carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide.
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