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Taste of Cherry (1997)

Sep 28, 1997 Drama 1h 39m
77%
User Score
7.7/10
83%
80/100

The end of the road.

Overview

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

Abbas Kiarostami
Director

Top Billed Cast

Homayoun Ershadi
Homayoun Ershadi

Mr. Badii
Abdolrahman Bagheri
Abdolrahman Bagheri

Mr. Bagheri
Safar Ali Moradi
Safar Ali Moradi

Soldier
Mir Hossein Noori
Mir Hossein Noori

Seminarian
Elham Imani
Elham Imani

Photographer
Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari
Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari

Worker
Ahmad Ansari
Ahmad Ansari

Self

Full Cast & Crew

Media

Taste of Cherry | Modern Trailer
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A review by CRCulver
Written on August 14, 2018

In Abbas Kiarostami's 1997 film Ta'm-e gilas (Taste of Cherry) one Mr. Badi, a man about whom viewers learn virtually nothing, drives around Tehran looking for someone to do him a favour: that night, he will kill himself in a quarry outside the city, and he wants someone to cast dirt over his body the next morning.

The first half of the film is essentially about Mr. Badi's difficulties finding someone to carry out this small task, in spite of the substantial amount of money he's offering. He is initially mistaken as a homosexual cruising for sex, a misunderstanding that Kiarostami even ribaldly encourages through suggestive dialogue. A seminary student refuses to help him because suicide is a sin. I must say that I was very disappointed by these 40 minutes plus. Shooting so much of the ...

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