TASTE OF CHERRY at WATERWITCH

THE FIRST IRANIAN FILM TO WIN THE PALME D'OR AT CANNES. Waterwitch is thrilled to present Abbas Kiarostami's 1997 masterpiece Taste of Cherry. The film will be paired with cocktails by Ari Ponce designed to complement the screening. Doors / Cocktail Hour: 6pm Screening: 7pm FILM DESCRIPTION: 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. “Abbas Kiarostami represents the highest level of artistry in cinema… put into word by the great Jean Renoir, ‘Reality is always magic.’ That statement sums up Kiarostami’s extraordinary body of work.” - Martin Scorsese

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