And Life Goes on (1992) [The Criterion Collection]
And Life Goes on (1992)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 95 min | 3,96 Gb
Audio: Persian AC3 1.0 @ 96 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Adventure, Drama
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 95 min | 3,96 Gb
Audio: Persian AC3 1.0 @ 96 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Adventure, Drama
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Writer: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Farhad Kheradmand, Buba Bayour, Hocine Rifahi
In the aftermath of the 1990 earthquake in Iran that left fifty thousand dead, Abbas Kiarostami returned to Koker, where his camera surveys not only devastation but also the teeming life in its wake. Blending fiction and reality into a playful, poignant road movie, And Life Goes On follows a film director who, along with his son, makes the trek to the region in hopes of finding out if the young boys who acted in Where Is the Friend’s House? are among the survivors, and discovers a resilient community pressing on in the face of tragedy. Finding beauty in the bleakest of circumstances, Kiarostami crafts a quietly majestic ode to the best of the human spirit.
Also known as: Life and Nothing More… (1992)
Whilst watching this film i was struck by how natural and simplistic the film was. A film director and his son travel through Iran after an earthquake has struck to try and see if the boy who starred in his last film is still alive. That is what the film is, observing people on the road, whose lives have been destroyed, people whose lives still go on. Kiarostami presents life in such a naturalistic way that we are sitting in the back seat of the car taking the journey as well. That is the perfection of the this film, the real life, the carnage of life, the people striving for life, all add up to one up-lifting experience. Like Rossellini with a uplifting finale, and minus the melodrama. Kiarostami seeks to capture reality on film in a similar way as the Neo-realists, through humanity and observation, but while the Neo-realists films can be seen as natural, Kiarostami reinvents naturalism as if nature had shot the film itself. Yet another piece of perfection from Kiarostami, not to be missed.
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And Life Goes on (1992) [The Criterion Collection]
Audio commentary featuring Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, coauthors of Abbas Kiarostami
The Koker Trilogy:
1. Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)
2. And Life Goes on (1992)
3. Through the Olive Trees (1994)
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