...Va Zendegi edameh darad
Iran,
1992, 91 min
Shown in 1993 / 2000
CREDITS
- dir
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Abbas Kiarostami
- prod
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Alireza Zarrin
- scr
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Abbas Kiarostami
- cam
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Homayoun Pievar
- editor
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Abbas Kiarostami
- cast
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Farhad Khradmand, Pooya Pievar
- source
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Play Film, 14, rue du Moulin Joly, 75011 Paris, France. FAX: 33-1-40-21-88-44. EMAIL: playfilm@aol.com
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COMMENTS
Abbas Kiarostami appeared in person to receive the Akira Kurosawa Award in 2000.
OTHER
Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Roberto Rossellini Prize, this is the second film of Kiarostami’s Earthquake Trilogy, the first being Where Is the Friend’s Home?, also part of this year’s Festival. After a catastrophic earthquake killed more than 50,000 people in northern Iran, Kiarostami returned to Koker, a remote village in the disaster zone, where he had filmed Where Is the Friend’s Home? “My concern,” said Kiarostami, “was to find out the fate of the two young actors who played in the film, but I failed to locate them. However, there was so much else to see.... I was observing the efforts of people trying to rebuild their lives in spite of their material and emotional sufferings. The enthusiasm for life that I was witnessing gradually changed my perspective. The tragedy of death and destruction gradually grew paler and paler.” And Life Goes On... recreates the effects of this natural disaster on the village and its inhabitants, transforming Kiarostami’s initial quest into a transcendent work of art which explores the difference betweeen real life and its cinematic representation and celebrates the indestructibility of the human spirit.
—Alissa Simon
FACTOID #336
Bing Crosby was invited several times for an onstage tribute at the Festival, reports then-director Claude Jarman, but declined the honor. “Nobody wants to see those little things that I used to do,” he modestly replied. He did attend though, with wife Kathy and their friend, Rita Hayworth.
