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How To Read Kiarostami

One of the most critically-acclaimed Iranian directors is Abbas Kiarostami , whose popularity among critics started in full-bloom after his movie A Taste of Cherry won at the Cannes Film Festival . From here on , there has been an existing debate regarding Kiarostami 's caliber as a director and his overrated fame . The article written by Godfrey Cheshire looked into the details of this debate and focused on the qualities which Kiarostami 's antagonists overlooked thus , failing to see the director

's filmmaking strengths . In the following discussion , the factors for understanding Kiorastami 's point of view with regards to filmmaking will be taken into account

These factors are taken in the context of the distance between the West and Eastern belief with regards to filmmaking . The factors to be discussed will be mainly focusing on Iranian perspectives which reflect Kiarostami 's work to be able to point out the difference with the West Iranian cinema accepted the flow of contemporary films through the Iranian New Wave . This wave is considered as a movement in the Iranian film industry where a discernible tendency in terms of social and political concerns , poetics , and over-all quality (Saeed-Vafa Rosenbaum 2 ) in a modern image of Iran has been the subject of contemporary Iranian films . Kiarostami is among the Iranian directors who came out in this movement and thus became know outside Iran

Most of his films can be classified as minimalist in nature and does not...