The Taste Of Cherries (1997) **

A complex character study about a desperate man who contemplates suicide. He's cruising through the barren outskirts of Teheran in a Range Rover, looking for someone to bury his body. The film won the Palme d'or at Cannes. To say that it isn't one of Kiarostami's finest is more a comment on the exceptional qualities of his previous works, than a criticism of this well-crafted, but very depressing film.