DVD
Through the olive trees = Zire darakhatan zeyton
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In Persian, with English subtitles.
Performers
Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2019]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (103 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for this wondrous, slyly self-referential series of films set in the rural northern-Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the lyrical fables in The Koker Trilogy exemplify both the gentle humanism and playful sleight of hand that define the director's sensibility. With each successive film, Kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind-the-scenes "reality" of the film that preceded it, heightening our understanding of the complex network of human relationships that sustain both a movie set and a village. The result is a gradual outward zoom that reveals the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary life.
Notes
Title from disc surface.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1994.
Special edition: New 2K digital restoration ; new interview with Kiarostami's son Ahmad Kiarostami ; new conversation between scholar Jamsheed Akrami and critic Godfrey Cheshire ; new English subtitle translations.