Cinema—Through the Olive Trees

Salam, Dustan!

‘Kiarostami takes meta-narrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final instalment of his celebrated Koker trilogy. Unfolding behind the scenes of the shooting of the previous film in the series, And Life Goes On…, Through the Olive Trees traces the complications that arise when the romantic misfortune of one of the actors—a lovelorn 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, this Pirandellian pastoral peels away layer after layer of artifice as it investigates the elusive, alchemical relationship between cinema and reality.’ – Janus Films

We’ll meet at 8pm before the film starts and after the screening for a chat and drinks at the cinema. Reservation link for the 8.15pm screening:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/close-up-cinema/e-qgvobz

Do you speak French and would like to be part of a reading group and other events in French?
https://www.meetup.com/gaia-livres/
Do you speak Spanish and would like to be part of a reading group in Spanish?
https://www.meetup.com/gaia-libros/
Or join my eclectic English book club:
https://www.meetup.com/gaia-books
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https://chat.whatsapp.com/EZk35ZbJZ6W6wwyHyuxoS2