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Mr. Badii drives slowly around the dusty hills outside Tehran, looking for someone willing to accept a strange, well-paid job: check on him the following morning, and if he's dead, bury him. Taste of Cherry follows Badii through a soldier, a seminary student, and finally an old taxidermist, each offering him a different reason to reconsider - and Kiarostami leaves the answer entirely in the audience's hands. The first Iranian film to win the Palme d'Or, it's also one of the most divisive, closing our Five Weeks of Abbas Kiarostami on a note that's split critics for decades: some found it a slow, monumental achievement, others found it maddening. Either way, it's essential Kiarostami, and its unconventional, fourth-wall-breaking final minutes are still argued over today. The Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus called it a richly ambiguous character study with an impressively ambitious thematic scale, while The New York Times' Stephen Holden described it as simultaneously epic and precisely minuscule. Five Weeks of Abbas Kiarostami: Taste of Cherry (1997, Iran) Thursday, October 22 | Doors: 6PM | Film: 8PM | TicTic, Phnom Penh Free Entry & Popcorn - Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.