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Kiarostami's life lessons: how art flourishes where it would suffer, and struggles where it should thrive.(Abbas Kiarostami)(Critical essay)
I presented an earlier version of the following essay in 2000, shortly after I had seen Taste of Cherries and American Beauty each for the first time. As the people running this country continue to flirt with the possibility of a war with Iran, it strikes me that many of the arguments herein have become even more salient. Kiarostami has gone on to make even better films, while Sam Mendes has continued to produce lightweight, middle brow schlock, dressed up in "realism" including, coincidentally enough, a film about American military action in the Middle East The basic quandary considered in the essay remains intact. In Iran everything, including the film industry, is ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Kiarostami's life lessons: how art flourishes where it would suffer,...