Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry_ is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran—searching for someone to rescue or bury him.

"Attains a kind of haunting mysticism, profoundly shifting the audience's perception of reality. It's Kiarostami's finest work, and one of the best films of the 1990s." - Mattie Lucas, From the Front Row

"Confirmed Kiarostami as the most acclaimed director of Iran's rich film culture..." - Sean Axmaker, Turner Classic Movies Online

"Kiarastomi, like no other filmmaker, has a vision of human scale that is simultaneously epic and precisely minuscule." - Stephen Holden, New York Times