Abbas Kiarostami, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Abbas Kiarostami

Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1940

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Date of Death: 04-Jul-2016

Profession: screenwriter, photographer, actor, poet, cinematographer, graphic designer, illustrator, painter, sculptor, film director, film producer, film editor

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Abbas Kiarostami

  • Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: ???? ????????? [?æb?b??s kij???ostæ'mi] (listen); 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer.
  • An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries.
  • Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
  • In later works, Certified Copy (2010) and Like Someone in Love (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively.
  • His films Where Is the Friend’s Home?, Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture.
  • Close-Up was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012.Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material.
  • He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer.
  • He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Bahram Beyzai, Nasser Taghvai, Ali Hatami, Masoud Kimiai, Dariush Mehrjui, Sohrab Shahid-Saless and Parviz Kimiavi.
  • These filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues.Kiarostami had a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary-style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras.
  • He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films.
  • Kiarostami's films contain a notable degree of ambiguity, an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity, and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements.
  • The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death, play a major role in Kiarostami's works.

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