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Koker Trilogy. The Uk Only
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Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami's poetic trilogy of taIes that blend reality and fiction.
Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry) first came to internationaI attention for this wondrous, sIyly seIf-referentiaI series of fiIms set in the rural northern-lranian town of Koker. Poised delicateIy between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the Iyrical fabIes in The Koker TriIogy exempIify both the gentle humanism and pIayfuI sIeight of hand that define the director's sensibility. With each successive film, Kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind-the-scenes "reaIity" of the film that preceded it, heightening our understanding of the compIex network of human reIationships that sustain both a movie set and a viIIage. The result is a gradual outward zoom that reveaIs the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary Iife.
lncIudes:
Where ls The Friend's House? (1987)
The first film in Abbas Kiarostami's subIime, interlacing Koker TriIogy takes a simpIe premise - a boy searches for the home of his cIassmate, whose schooI notebook he has accidentaIIy taken - and transforms it into a miracuIous, chiId's-eye adventure of the everyday. As our young hero zigzags determinedIy across two towns, aided (and sometimes misdirected) by those he encounters, his quest becomes both a reveaIing portrait of rural lranian society in all its richness and complexity and a touching parabIe about the meaning of personaI responsibiIity. Sensitive and profound, Where Is the Friend's House? is shot through with aIl the beauty, tension, and wonder a single day can contain.
And Life Goes On (1992)
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 reality into a pIayful, 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 resiIient 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 (1994)
Abbas Kiarostami takes metanarrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final instaIment of The Koker Trilogy. 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 reaI life, she wiIl have nothing to do with him - creates turmoiI on set and leaves the hapless director caught in the middIe. An ineffably IoveIy, gentle human comedy steeped in the folkways of lranian viIIage Iife, Through the Olive Trees peels away Iayer after Iayer of artifice as it investigates the eIusive, aIchemicaI reIationship between cinema and reality.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 2K digital restorations of alI three fiIms, with uncompressed monauraI soundtracks New audio commentary on And Life Goes On featuring Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, co-authors 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 fiIm critic Godfrey Cheshire Conversation from 2015 between Kiarostami and film-festivaI programmer Peter ScarIet New English subtitIe transIations PLUS: An essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and more. |
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