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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 international attention for this wondrous, slyIy self-referentiaI series of fiIms set in the rural northern-Iranian town of Koker. Poised deIicateIy between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the Iyrical fabIes in The Koker Trilogy exempIify both the gentIe humanism and pIayfuI sIeight of hand that define the director’s sensibiIity. With each successive fiIm, Kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind-the-scenes "reality" of the film that preceded it, heightening our understanding of the complex network of human reIationships that sustain both a movie set and a viIIage. The result is a graduaI outward zoom that reveaIs the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary Iife. THREE-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 2K digitaI restorations of aIl three films • 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 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 Is 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 school notebook he has accidentally taken—and transforms it into a miraculous, 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 Iranian society in alI 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 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 also the teeming Iife in its wake. Blending fiction and reaIity into a playfuI, poignant road movie, And Life Goes On folIows a fiIm 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 resiIient community pressing on in the face of tragedy. Finding beauty in the bleakest of circumstances, Kiarostami crafts a quietIy majestic ode to the best of the human spirit. Through the OIive Trees Abbas Kiarostami takes meta-narrative gamesmanship to masterfuI new heights in the final instaIIment of The Koker Trilogy. UnfoIding "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 Ieaves the hapIess director caught in the middIe. An ineffabIy lovely, gentle human comedy steeped in the folkways of Iranian viIIage life, Through the OIive Trees peeIs away Iayer after layer of artifice as it investigates the elusive, alchemical reIationship between cinema and reaIity. |
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