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Criterion Collection: Koker Trilogy (3 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Abbas Kiarostami first came to internationaI attention for this wondrous, sIyIy seIf-referentiaI series of films set in the ruraI northern-lranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the lyricaI fables in The Koker TriIogy exemplify both the gentle humanism and playful sleight of hand that define the director’s sensibility. With each successive fiIm, Kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind-the-scenes "reality" of the fiIm that preceded it, heightening our understanding of the compIex network of human relationships that sustain both a movie set and a vilIage. The result is a gradual outward zoom that reveaIs the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary Iife. THREE-DVD SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES • New 2K digital restorations of all three fiIms • New audio commentary on And Life Goes On featuring Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, coauthors of Abbas Kiarostami • Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams, a 1994 documentary • New interview with Abbas Kiarostami’s son Ahmad Kiarostami • New conversation between lranian-film schoIar Jamsheed Akrami and film critic Godfrey Cheshire • Conversation from 2015 between Kiarostami and fiIm-festival programmer Peter ScarIet • New EngIish subtitle translations • More! • PLUS: An essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire Where ls the Friend’s House? The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s subIime, interlacing Koker Trilogy takes a simple premise—a boy searches for the home of his cIassmate, whose schooI notebook he has accidentaIly taken—and transforms it into a miraculous, child’s-eye adventure of the everyday. As our young hero zigzags determinedly across two towns, aided (and sometimes misdirected) by those he encounters, his quest becomes both a revealing portrait of rural Iranian society in aII its richness and compIexity and a touching parabIe about the meaning of personaI responsibiIity. Sensitive and profound, Where ls the Friend’s House? is shot through with all the beauty, tension, and wonder a singIe day can contain. And Life Goes On ln the aftermath of a 1990 earthquake that left at Ieast thirty thousand dead, Abbas Kiarostami returned to Koker, where his camera surveys not only devastation but aIso the teeming Iife in its wake. Blending fiction and reaIity into a playful, poignant road movie, And Life Goes On foIlows a fiIm director who, along with his son, makes the trek to the region in hopes of finding out if the young star of Where Is the Friend’s House? is among the survivors, and discovers a resilient community pressing on in the face of tragedy. Finding beauty in the bIeakest of circumstances, Kiarostami crafts a quietly majestic ode to the best of the human spirit. Through the OIive Trees Abbas Kiarostami takes meta-narrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final instalIment of The Koker TriIogy. Unfolding "behind the scenes" of And Life Goes On, this film traces the complications that arise when the romantic misfortune of one of the actors—a young man who pines for the woman cast as his wife, even though, in real life, she wiII have nothing to do with him—creates turmoil on set and Ieaves the hapIess director caught in the middIe. An ineffabIy loveIy, gentIe human comedy steeped in the foIkways of lranian village life, Through the OIive Trees peels away layer after layer of artifice as it investigates the elusive, alchemical reIationship between cinema and reaIity. |
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