Rent Through the Olive Trees (1994)
3.9 of 5 from 69 ratings
1h 43min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
Abbas Kiarostami takes metanarrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final instalment of The Koker Trilogy. Unfolding "behind the scenes" of 'And Life Goes On', this film traces the complications that arise when the romantic misfortune of one of the actors - a young man who pines for the woman cast as his wife, even though, in real life, she will have nothing to do with him - creates turmoil on set and leaves the hapless director caught in the middle. An ineffably lovely, gentle human comedy steeped in the folkways of Iranian village life, 'Through the Olive Trees' peels away layer after layer of artifice as it investigates the elusive, alchemical relationship between cinema and reality. - Actors:
- Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai, Tahereh Ladanian, Hocine Redai, Zahra Nourouzi, Nosrat Bagheri, Azim Aziz Nia, Ostadvali Babaei, N. Boursadiki, Khodabakhsh Defaei, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Babek Ahmed Poor, Mahbanou Darabi, Kardouni Nouri, Hossein Jafarian, Jafar Panahi
- Directors:
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Producers:
- Alain Depardieu, Abbas Kiarostami
- Writers:
- Abbas Kiarostami, Harold Manning, Hengameh Panahi
- Aka:
- Zire darakhatan zeyton
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Drama
- Collections:
- All the Twos: 1972-2012
- Countries:
- Iran
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/09/2019
- Run Time:
- 103 minutes
- Languages:
- Persian LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New audio commentary on 'And Life Goes On' featuring Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, coauthors of Abbas Kiarostami
- Homework (1989), a feature-length documentary by Abbas Kiarostami, newly restored
- Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams, a 1994 documentary
- New interview with Kiarostami's son Ahmad Kiarostami
- New conversation between scholar Jamsheed Akrami and critic Godfrey Cheshire
- Conversation from 2015 between Abbas Kiarostami and programmer Peter Scarlet
- New interview with scholar Hamid Naficy
