Following his death, his native country Tuesday rendered tribute to the filmmaker, starting with its president Hassan Rouhani who praised his “ different and deeper look ” about life.
The Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati, has raised him “ a forward-thinking approach to the humanist and moral .”
In Tehran, several hundred people gathered in the evening in front of the Cinema Museum to honor him with candles and portraits.
“ Just see his films for knowledge, his works were so close to his personality “, told AFP the director Asghar Farhadi, who signed as other Iranian cinema personalities a condolence book.
“ He dared to do things that few people dared, and he experienced (…) has opened doors for others. That’s why the film world in whole sad tonight, not only in Iran “, he added.
Student cinema, Salar Sharif, 20, is as sad as if “ had lost a close friend .” Abbas Kiarostami “ played an important role in my life ,” he confided. “ + The Taste of Cherry + changed my perception of death and + Close Up + my perception of life .”
– ‘The Rossellini Tehran’ –
Winner of the golden palm at Cannes in 1997 for “ the taste of cherry “, Iranian filmmaker died Monday in the late afternoon to the mutual Institute Montsouris private Paris hospital, told AFP from sources.
He had left Tehran last week for treatment in France, according to the ISNA Iranian news agency.
Born in Tehran in 1940 into a poor family, became one of the most prominent filmmakers of Iranian cinema in the 1960s, he has won awards in the world’s biggest festivals him that brought worldwide fame.
In 1999, with “ The Wind Will Carry Us “, the dignity in work and gender equality, he won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival Venice.
Filming Reality, humanist and poet, he used his camera as a microscope to “ give birth link between people “, he said.
“ Abbas is not only the largest Iranian filmmaker, Rossellini Tehran, the researcher found that it was also an inspired photographer. He was the same art “tweeted former President of the Cannes Festival, Gilles Jacob.
He stayed in the country after the 1979 Islamic revolution and continued to work with the world of cinema abroad, tolerated by the clerical regime. The official Iranian news agency IRNA said that his remains would be repatriated to Iran to be buried.
“ has profoundly marked the history of cinema ,” responded the French President Francois Hollande, under “ a work where poetry gave the little things of everyday life particular and universal dimension . ”
– ‘An inventor’ –
“ It is one of those rare filmmakers that there was a before and after for film ” , said Frédéric Bonnaud, director of the French Cinematheque, seeing him as “ inventor ” which combined a “ realism, much speaking of his country and children of her country, knowing that the cinema is a show that can handle the real . ”
“ Without him, I would never have done Persepolis ,” added the designer and director Franco-Iranian Marjane Satrapi, who had met him in France after admiring his films in Iran.
“ In Europe, had seen his films, so we could not see the Iranians as a people of terrorists, but as human beings. It opened the way for a generation of Iranian artists “, has she told AFP.
It is thanks to him that Iranian cinema has such international legitimacy today, said his compatriot, filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf ( “ Kandahar “). “ He changed the world of cinema, he refreshed, humanized ” in contrast to Hollywood cinema, he told AFP.
“ By itself, it has changed the image of Iran ,” tweeted Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani ( “ Chicken With Plums “,” The two friends ‘,’ Paterson “).
On twitter number of admirers quoted a phrase from Jean-Luc Godard: “ The cinema is born with Griffith and ends with Kiarostami .”
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