Taste of Cherry (1997)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
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.
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What critics compared Taste of Cherry to
It deserves comparison to some of history's most thoughtful and poetic films; Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre Sa Vie, Akira Kurosawa's High and Low, Ingmar Bergman's Persona, and Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita.
(The strategy shares something with the one employed by Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami to film the driving scenes in his “Taste of Cherry.”)
This epilogue is done in a manner that is reminiscent of Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry (1997), in that it’s a sequence showcasing behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the film…