Iranian Film "Taste Of Cherry" To Be Screened At Lok Virsa

National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) Mandwa Film Club will organize screening of Iranian film "Taste of Cherry" on October 20 at its media center.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Oct, 2018 ) :National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) Mandwa Film Club will organize screening of Iranian film "Taste of Cherry" on October 20 at its media center.

"Taste of Cherry" is a 1997 Iranian drama film written, produced and directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It is minimalist film about a man who drives through a city suburb, in search of someone who can carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide.

It was awarded the Pale d'Or at 1997 Cannes Film Festival. It traverses the path of a middle aged man who drives his truck across Iran to seek an unusual favor, of anyone willing to help him.

The movie is about the interactions between humans, about the joy of life as seen through the eyes of desperate man.

As the story unfolds and folds, we get to human experience that transcends cultures and other barriers to become a shared legacy.

Abbas Kiarostami's style in the film is notable for the use of long shots, such as in the closing sequences. He creates distance for the audience from the characters to stimulate reflection on their fate.

Taste of Cherry is punctuated throughout by shots of this kind, including distant overhead shots of the Badii's car moving across the hills, usually while he is conversing with a passenger.

The visual distancing stand in contrast to the sound of the dialogue, which always remains in the foreground. Like the co-existence of private and public space or the frequent framing of landscapes through car windows, this fusion of distance with proximity can be seen as a way of generating suspense in the most mundane of moments.