Celebrity Death: Abbas Kiarostami

[hototogisu]

Award-winning Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami has died in Paris aged 76, Iranian news agencies report.

He had been undergoing hospital treatment in France for cancer.

Kiarostami stayed in Iran after the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and made more than 40 films, including documentaries. He won the Palme D'Or, the top prize at Cannes, with his 1997 film Taste of Cherry.

But he shot his last two films outside the country.

Kiarostami was hugely influential in world cinema. The French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard is reputed to have said: "Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36709240

Sad news. He was a giant of the "art house" cinema world. Shirin is one of my personal favorite movies and he could always be counted on to do something interesting and unique.

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[kihei]

Sad to hear this news. He was a great director.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Awful news. My favourite modern director. The ending to "Life, and Nothing More..." really affected me.