Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword, by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Art and Craft of Interviewing
- I Going Hollywood: Masters of Studio Style
- II Tickets to the Dark Side: Festival Favorites
- III Blows Against the Empire: Indie Godfathers
- IV Edgeplay: Avant-Garde Auteurs
- V Women in Revolt: Artist-Activists
- VI The Canon: Brilliance without Borders
- 16 “For a Kind of Pleasure”: Federico Fellini
- 17 Transcendental Style, Poetic Precision: Robert Bresson
- 18 “The Fruitful Tree Bends”: Abbas Kiarostami
- 19 Alter Ego, Autobiography and Auteurism: François Truffant
- Contributor Biographies
18 - “The Fruitful Tree Bends”: Abbas Kiarostami
from VI - The Canon: Brilliance without Borders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword, by Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Art and Craft of Interviewing
- I Going Hollywood: Masters of Studio Style
- II Tickets to the Dark Side: Festival Favorites
- III Blows Against the Empire: Indie Godfathers
- IV Edgeplay: Avant-Garde Auteurs
- V Women in Revolt: Artist-Activists
- VI The Canon: Brilliance without Borders
- 16 “For a Kind of Pleasure”: Federico Fellini
- 17 Transcendental Style, Poetic Precision: Robert Bresson
- 18 “The Fruitful Tree Bends”: Abbas Kiarostami
- 19 Alter Ego, Autobiography and Auteurism: François Truffant
- Contributor Biographies
Summary
Abbas Kiarostami (born 1940) is the most influential and controversial post-revolutionary Iranian filmmaker and one of the most highly celebrated directors in the international film community of the last decade. During the period of the 1980s and the 1990s, at a time when Iranians had such a negative image in the West, his cinema introduced the humane and artistic face of his people. Kiarostami has been involved in the making of over 40 films since 1970, including shorts and documentaries; he first attained global critical acclaim for directing the Koker Trilogy (Where Is the Friend's House? [1987], Life and Nothing More… [1991], and Through the Olive Trees [1994]), A Taste of Cherry (1997) and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999).
Kiarostami belongs to a generation of filmmakers who created the so called “New Wave,” a movement in Iranian cinema that started in the 1960s, before the revolution of 1979. Directors such as Forough Farrokhzad, Dariush Mehrjui, Sohrab Shaheed Saless, Amir Naderi, Bahram Beizai and Parviz Kimiavi were the pioneers of this movement. These filmmakers had a number of techniques in common, including the use of poetic dialogue and of allegorical narrative as a way of dealing with complex political and philosophical issues. They were followed not only by Kiarostami, but also by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Bahman Ghobadi, Jafar Panahi and Hassan Yektapanah.
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- Action! , pp. 299 - 322Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2009