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Abbas Kiarostami has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Close-Up.
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami · With Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah
An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami · With Babek Ahmadpour, Ahmed Ahmadpour, Kheda Barech Defai
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami · With Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Safar Ali Moradi
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami · With Farhad Kheradmand, Buba Bayour, Hossein Rezai
When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami · With Mohammadali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva
Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.
Dir. Jafar Panahi · With Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami · With Mania Akbari, Amina Maher, Kamran Adl
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami · With Behzad Dorani, Farzad Sohrabi, Noghre Asadi
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami · With Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami · With Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryo Kase
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Dir. Michael Cimino, Luc Dardenne, Atom Egoyan, Chen Kaige, Manoel de Oliveira, Bille August, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Walter Salles, Tsai Ming-liang, Theo Angelopoulos, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Olivier Assayas, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Takeshi Kitano, Roman Polanski, Gus Van Sant, Abbas Kiarostami, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Jane Campion, Raymond Depardon, Amos Gitai, Nanni Moretti, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Elia Suleiman, Aki Kaurismäki, Raúl Ruiz, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar-Wai, Ken Loach, Wim Wenders, Youssef Chahine, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Zhang Yimou · With Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani
