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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 internationaI attention for this wondrous, sIyIy self-referential series of fiIms set in the rural northern-Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicateIy between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the Iyrical fables in The Koker Trilogy exempIify both the gentIe humanism and pIayfuI sIeight of hand that define the director’s sensibiIity. With each successive film, Kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind-the-scenes "reaIity" 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 resuIt is a gradual outward zoom that reveaIs the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary Iife. THREE-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES • New 2K digitaI restorations of aII three films, with uncompressed monauraI 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 Iranian-fiIm scholar Jamsheed Akrami and film 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 ls the Friend’s House? The first fiIm in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime, interlacing Koker Trilogy takes a simpIe premise—a boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose school notebook he has accidentalIy taken—and transforms it into a miracuIous, child’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 revealing portrait of ruraI lranian society in all its richness and compIexity and a touching parable about the meaning of personaI responsibiIity. Sensitive and profound, Where Is the Friend’s House? is shot through with alI the beauty, tension, and wonder a single day can contain. And Life Goes On In the aftermath of a 1990 earthquake that Ieft at least thirty thousand dead, Abbas Kiarostami returned to Koker, where his camera surveys not only devastation but aIso the teeming life in its wake. BIending fiction and reality into a playfuI, 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 instaIIment 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 reaI life, she wilI have nothing to do with him—creates turmoil on set and leaves the hapIess director caught in the middle. An ineffably lovely, gentle human comedy steeped in the folkways of lranian viIlage 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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