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TASTE OF CHERRY: Drama. Starring Homayon Ershadi. Directed and
written by Abbas Kiarostami. (Not rated. 95 minutes. Today through
Thursday at the Castro, opening May 15 at the Towne 3 in San Jose.)
“Taste of Cherry,” opening today at the Castro, is the newest import
from Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (“Through the Olive
Trees”). A humanist in the tradition of Satyajit Ray and Vittorio de
Sica, Kiarostami tells simple, compassionate stories that are so
lacking in Hollywood effects and cosmetics that they come as a
surprise.
“Taste of Cherry,” which won the Palme d’Or at last year’s
Cannes Film Festival, is the story of Mr. Badii (Homayon Ershadi), a
middle-aged man who wants to die and
goes looking for someone who will bury him after he’s killed himself.
Driving though the outskirts of Tehran, he encounters a series of
men, asks them to ride with him in his car and then makes his
proposal.
His possible accomplices include a laborer who gathers and sells
plastic bags, a timid Kurdish soldier, a security guard, an Afghani
seminarian who quotes from the Koran and a
Turkish taxidermist who urges Mr. Badii to embrace life (“Every
problem has its solution — you want to give up the taste of
cherries?”).
That’s really all that happens. We don’t learn anything about Mr.
Badii’s profession, his family or the roots of his exhausting despair
– only that he’s “decided to free myself from this life.” Ershadi
is such an eloquent actor, with such large, sad and expressive eyes,
that his bearing and his face tell us enough.
The dialogues in “Taste of Cherry” open up to religious and
philosophical debates, and the men that Mr. Badii encounters become
reflections of him in different ways. When the seminarian argues
there
is no difference between murder and suicide, Mr. Badii says, “I know
suicide is a sin, but being unhappy is a great sin, too.”
Kiarostami doesn’t take sides or judge Mr. Badii but arranges his
story, which takes place in one day, in a way that allows for
ambiguity and contradiction and gives us the option to decide as we
wish.
A warning: The pace is very slow in “Taste of Cherry,” with long
takes and leisurely, repetitious shots of Mr. Badii’s car twisting
through a hilly countryside. Kiarostami is in no rush, but the
respect and love he shows for his characters, and the confidence and
simplicity of his technique, make “Taste of Cherry” a satisfying
experience.

