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Five weeks of Abbas Kiarostami: Taste of Cherry (1997, Iran)
🗓 Thursday, October 22 | ⏰ Doors: 6PM | 🎬 Film: 8PM | 📍 TicTic, Phnom Penh
Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives slowly around the dusty hills outside Tehran, looking for someone willing to accept a strange, well-paid job: check on him the following morning, and if he's dead, bury him. He picks up a soldier, a seminary student, and finally an old taxidermist, each of whom offers Badii a different reason to reconsider — and Kiarostami leaves the answer entirely in the audience's hands.
The first Iranian film to win the Palme d'Or, and one of the most divisive: some critics found it a slow, monumental achievement, others found it maddening. Either way, it's essential Kiarostami, and its unconventional, fourth-wall-breaking final minutes are still argued over decades later.
"A richly ambiguous character study with an impressively ambitious thematic scale."
— Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus
"Simultaneously epic and precisely minuscule."
— Stephen Holden, The New York Times
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn – Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119412/
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/taste-of-cherry/
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TicTic តិចៗ, Langka Lane (Lane behind Patio Hotel), Boeng Keng Kang Ti Muoy, Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 120102, Cambodia
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