The Wind Will Carry Us
July 5, 2016 12:15 AM Subscribe
Acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami has passed away. His better known films include Taste of Cherry (wikipedia) and The Wind Will Carry Us (wikipedia), the former of which, Ebert famously loathed.
Shout out for his last film, the visually seductive Like Someone in Love (2012)
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posted by nightrecordings at 3:34 AM on July 5, 2016
posted by nightrecordings at 3:34 AM on July 5, 2016
edeezy: "Terrible year for film fans. So many directors gone. Peter Hutton, Cimino, and Kiarostami in just the last week. ."
Paul Cox too.
I've been meaning to watch more of Kiarostami's work, I've only seen Like Someone In Love so far.
posted by octothorpe at 4:15 AM on July 5, 2016
Paul Cox too.
I've been meaning to watch more of Kiarostami's work, I've only seen Like Someone In Love so far.
posted by octothorpe at 4:15 AM on July 5, 2016
A wonderful director who will be missed. In my own head, I put him along with other directors (Kieslowski and Tarkovsky amongst others) who succeeded in spite of the restraints put on him by the state. His storytelling is lean yet lush. He mines ribbons of gold that other directors would not dare because, well, they have no constraints. He had to find ways to tell stories that the state would allow. The range of this man is nuts: Close Up, The Wind Will Carry Us, ABC Africa and Certified Copy.
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posted by zerobyproxy at 5:31 AM on July 5, 2016 [3 favorites]
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posted by zerobyproxy at 5:31 AM on July 5, 2016 [3 favorites]
Senses of Cinema's profile of Kiarostami
posted by mediareport at 6:05 AM on July 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by mediareport at 6:05 AM on July 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
I've only managed to see his film Close-Up so far, but it was a very unusual and touching film, and I look forward to seeing more.
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posted by airish at 6:06 AM on July 5, 2016
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posted by airish at 6:06 AM on July 5, 2016
"Certified Copy" kind of blew my mind. First film of his I saw. I went into it at a film festival, knowing only that Juliette Binoche was in it and pretty much everything she does is at least interesting and worth seeing. And halfway through the movie you slowly come to realize that what you thought was going on is maybe not at all what's going on. I was kind of obsessed over it for a while.
Sad to hear he's passed, I was looking forward to more great stuff from him.
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posted by dnash at 6:10 AM on July 5, 2016 [3 favorites]
Sad to hear he's passed, I was looking forward to more great stuff from him.
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posted by dnash at 6:10 AM on July 5, 2016 [3 favorites]
dnash--it was a lovely film. A film written for adults to enjoy. Agreed.
posted by zerobyproxy at 6:39 AM on July 5, 2016
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posted by The Bellman at 6:56 AM on July 5, 2016
posted by The Bellman at 6:56 AM on July 5, 2016
Thanks for the post, but I'm not sure why you felt it necessary to feature Ebert's cranky loathing. Couldn't you at least have stuck it in More Inside? Anyway, this is dreadful news; I was hoping for late masterpieces from one of the greatest directors of my lifetime.
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posted by languagehat at 7:59 AM on July 5, 2016 [5 favorites]
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posted by languagehat at 7:59 AM on July 5, 2016 [5 favorites]
"Terrible year for film fans. So many directors gone. Peter Hutton, Cimino, and Kiarostami in just the last week. ."
Wicker Man director Robin Hardy too. It's like a hand is clawing across this world and tearing away an entire generation of artists.
posted by maxsparber at 8:28 AM on July 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
Wicker Man director Robin Hardy too. It's like a hand is clawing across this world and tearing away an entire generation of artists.
posted by maxsparber at 8:28 AM on July 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
Loved this guy's films, Ten is not talked about often but provided a fascinating view on Persian womanhood as seen by a taxi-driving woman.
posted by sibboleth at 10:56 AM on July 5, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by sibboleth at 10:56 AM on July 5, 2016 [3 favorites]
In a year filled with the deaths of many cultural giants that didn't quite resonate as much with me simply due to my lack of closeness with their work, Kiarostami is really the first gut-punch.
There are filmmakers who project a great empathy and understanding of humanity.
There are filmmakers who are more comfortable presenting a rather naturalistic viewpoint with their films. The sublimity and awe of the natural world as opposed to the nature of the human race.
Not a great deal of them (if any) did both as perfectly as Abbas Kiarostami.
O green from head to foot
place your hands like a burning memory
in my loving hands
give your lips to the caresses
of my loving lips
like the warm perception of being
the wind will take us
the wind will take us.
posted by dreamlanding at 11:58 AM on July 5, 2016 [2 favorites]
There are filmmakers who project a great empathy and understanding of humanity.
There are filmmakers who are more comfortable presenting a rather naturalistic viewpoint with their films. The sublimity and awe of the natural world as opposed to the nature of the human race.
Not a great deal of them (if any) did both as perfectly as Abbas Kiarostami.
O green from head to foot
place your hands like a burning memory
in my loving hands
give your lips to the caresses
of my loving lips
like the warm perception of being
the wind will take us
the wind will take us.
posted by dreamlanding at 11:58 AM on July 5, 2016 [2 favorites]
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