Abbas Kiarostami
Iranian · 1940–2016
Iranian master whose deceptively simple films like Taste of Cherry and Close-Up dissolved the boundary between documentary and fiction.
Wikipedia ↗“I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theatre. I think those films are sufficiently brave to allow you an absolutely free association with what you are watching.”
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Guardian interview, 2005 ↗ (2005)
“We can never get close to the truth except through lying.”
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Lessons with Kiarostami ↗ (2015)