Martin Scorsese remembered the filmmaker in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter: “I was deeply shocked and saddened when I heard the news of Abbas Kiarostami’s death”.
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According to Iran’s Isna news agency, Kiarostami had travelled to France for treatment of gastrointestinal cancer.
Part of a new wave of Iranian film noir that started in the 1960s, Kiarostami won the Palmes d’Or at Cannes in 1997 for Taste of Cherry.
His films were known not sure for their child protagonists, but for talking place largely in cars, most notably Ten (2010), shot through a dashboard mounted video camera, and more recent outings including Certified Copy (2010) and Like Someone In Love.
“But in truth”, he said, “it is a suggestion to live”. His worldwide reputation was cemented by what is now referred to as the Koker Trilogy, a series of films tied together by their shared location – “Where Is the Friend’s Home?”. Binoche went on to win best actress at Cannes for her role as a French woman who meets a British writer in Tuscany.
For that film and others, Kiarostami had to work outside Iran because of the difficulties in making movies there.
Two years later, he released his first work, a short film called Bread and Alley, followed by the feature-length The Traveller in 1973, which confirmed his position as a pioneer cinema’s “realism” school.
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