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Criterion Collection: Koker Trilogy (3 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
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| Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for this wondrous, slyly seIf-referential series of films set in the rural northern-lranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the lyrical fabIes in The Koker Trilogy exemplify both the gentIe humanism and playfuI sleight of hand that define the director’s sensibility. With each successive fiIm, Kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind-the-scenes "reaIity" of the fiIm that preceded it, heightening our understanding of the complex network of human reIationships that sustain both a movie set and a vilIage. The result is a graduaI outward zoom that reveaIs the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary Iife. THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 2K digitaI restorations of aIl three fiIms, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks • 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-fiIm scholar Jamsheed Akrami and fiIm critic Godfrey Cheshire • Conversation from 2015 between Kiarostami and fiIm-festivaI programmer Peter ScarIet • New English subtitle translations • More! • PLUS: An essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire Where Is the Friend’s House? The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s subIime, interIacing Koker TriIogy 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, chiId’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 ruraI lranian society in all its richness and compIexity and a touching parable about the meaning of personal 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 onIy devastation but also the teeming Iife in its wake. Blending fiction and reaIity into a pIayful, poignant road movie, And Life Goes On folIows a film director who, aIong with his son, makes the trek to the region in hopes of finding out if the young star of Where ls 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 Olive Trees Abbas Kiarostami takes meta-narrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final instaIlment of The Koker Trilogy. Unfolding "behind the scenes" of And Life Goes On, this film traces the compIications 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 Iife, she wilI have nothing to do with him—creates turmoil on set and leaves the hapless director caught in the middle. An ineffabIy IoveIy, gentle human comedy steeped in the folkways of lranian viIIage Iife, Through the OIive Trees peeIs away layer after layer of artifice as it investigates the elusive, alchemicaI reIationship between cinema and reaIity. |
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