Ta'm e guilass (1997)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Abbas Kiarostami

Guionista:

Abbas Kiarostami (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

30 enero 1998 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

Middle-aged Mr.Badii is planning to commit suicide and desperately seeks anyone to assist him - he has already dug out the grave in the mountains...

Plot Keywords:

Suicide | Existentialism | Long Take | Hole | Tree

Premios:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A work of art, seeking reason to live

Reparto

Homayoun Ershadi	...	Mr. Badii
Abdolrahman Bagheri	...	Mr. Bagheri
Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari	...	Soldier
Safar Ali Moradi	...	The soldier
Mir Hossein Noori	...	The seminarian
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Ahmad Ansari

También conocida como:

A Taste of Cherry (USA)
Le goût de la cerise (France)
Taste of Cherry (USA) (DVD box title)
El sabor de las cerezas (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

95 min

País:

France | Iran

Idioma:

Persian

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Brazil:12 | Finland:S | Hungary:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:Btl | UK:PG | Australia:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Tehran, Iran

Compañía:

Abbas Kiarostami Productions

Trivialidades:

Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 1997 (#06).

Citas:

Mr. Bagheri: If you look at the four seasons, each season brings fruit. In summer, there's fruit, in autumn, too. Winter brings different fruit and spring, too. No mother can fill her fridge with such a variety of fruit for her children. No mother can do as much for her children as God does for His creatures. You want to refuse all that? You want to give it all up? You want to give up the taste of cherries?

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Wo de fu qin mu qin (1999)

A work of art, seeking reason to live

It is a work of art, one of those movies that can not be censored because of the content, thus a good point for an Iranian director. Something I like about Kiarostami's work is that the director does not try to cheat you. Even you can sense the presence of camera in some scenes and the reward is the beautiful picture, like walking in a picture gallery hand in hand with your beloved friend. And suddenly a nice picture catches your attention and you feel happy of the time you spend. If you feel lonely or hopeless, Taste of cherry gives you the sensation that at least you are not alone in this feeling. Still it does not impose any view on you, if the life is always merciful and happy or not. You yourself should decide the end of movie, then after watching the film it lives with your unconscious mind. My view is that Badii is looking for a marvel or sign to believe in life. He appeals against the death penalty that he sentenced himself to. If no reason to live he found a reason to die and benefit a needy person.