• A Wedding Suit

  • Experience

  • Experience



A Wedding Suit

(Lebasi bara ye aroussi)

Abbas Kiarostami
Iran, 1976

Digital Restoration

  • Introduction and Lecture
    Godfrey Cheshire

    Godfrey Cheshire is a New York–based filmmaker and critic who has written extensively about Iranian cinema and is the author of the new book Conversations with Kiarostami, which he will sign following the screening. After the showing of A Wedding Suit, he will speak about this and other restored Kiarostami films that have rarely been seen outside Iran.

featuring

Mohammad Fazih Motaleb, Massud Zand Begleh, Mehdi Nekui,

Through almost purely visual means, Kiarostami creates an O. Henry–like story of a wedding suit “borrowed” from the tailor’s for a night, and uses it to explore the world of working youths in the shops and streets of Tehran. To outward appearances, the boys in question have only to wait on adults, delivering tea from the cafe or being a tailor’s assistant. But with adults out of earshot, an active subculture thrives, a hive of youthful desire for that which is perceived as unattainable, whether it is a girl, as in Experience, or, in this film, a bespoke suit made for a middle-class mama’s boy but coveted by the fast-talking street kids who give the film its life, its pathos, and its subtle class message.

Judy Bloch
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Abbas Kiarostami
  • Parviz Davai
Cinematographer
  • Firouz Malekzadeh
Language
  • Farsi
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 54 mins
Source
  • Janus Films
Followed By

Experience
(Tadjrobeh)

Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1973

FEATURING
Hassan Yar-Mohamadi
Parviz Naderi
Andre Guvalovich

An adolescent boy, old for his years like so many of Kiarostami’s (or Iran’s) working children, juggles a job as a photographer’s assistant, a first crush, and the urge to sample adulthood’s temptations (cigarettes and movies). This beautiful exercise in storytelling virtually without words is shot with the crispness and stark contrasts of Kiarostami’s still photography. But this vista teems with humanity—not only that of the boy, who is essentially without family, but of the adults he encounters (and who invariably let him down) on the urban pathways he courses. In his young actor, Kiarostami found a face and soul made for the screen.

Judy Bloch

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Abbas Kiarostami
Based On

  • a story by Amir Naderi

Cinematographer
  • Ali Reza Zarrindast
Language
  • Farsi
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 60 mins
source
  • Janus Films