Posts Tagged ‘Abbas Kiarostami’

Man Of Iran (Dariush Mehrjui)
Leslie Camhi

In the West, he’s the lesser-known member of the great triumvirate that includes Abbas Kiarostami and
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, but he’s also Iran’s longest-running cinematic master. Dariush Mehrjui’s films
combine elements of mysticism and neorealism in striking portraits of disenfranchised people, whether
haute bourgeois housewives or derelicts inhabiting the lower depths of Tehran. This 10-film
retrospective reveals a director who over the course of three decades has managed to trouble the
censors of both pre- and postrevolutionary Iranian society.

11/10/99
The Village Voice

Kiarostami’s latest film “Certified Copy” is accepted in the Cannes Film Festival’s main competition.
“While promoting his latest book in Italy, a middle-aged English writer meets a young French woman and sets off to San Gimignano with her.”

Sami Frey, Juliette Binoche are the leading actors of this film.

Abbas Kiarostami, a celebrated Iranian filmmaker who has won numerous international awards for films like “ Close-Up” and “ Through The Olive Trees,” published an open letter in a Tehran newspaper on Tuesday calling for the release of Jafar Panahi and Mahmoud Rasoulof, two directors recently detained by the authorities.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/iranian-filmmaker-speaks-out-on-prisoners/