Iranian cinema great Abbas Kiarostami takes meta-narrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in this playful story of cinema, role-playing and romantic misfortune.

Unfolding “behind the scenes” of the shooting of his film And Life Goes On…, Through the Olive Trees traces the complications that arise when the romantic misfortune of one of the actors -- a lovelorn young man who pines for the woman cast as his wife even though, in real life, she will have nothing to do with him -- creates turmoil on set and leaves the hapless director caught in the middle.

An ineffably lovely, gentle human comedy steeped in the folkways of Iranian village life, Kiarostami's film peels away layer after layer of artifice as it investigates the elusive, alchemical relationship between cinema and reality.

"a delightful viewing experience filled with pleasant surprises at every corner."
Wael Khairy, RogerEbert.com

"It’s as if Kiarostami was filming with an electron microscope... no other type of cinema in recent decades has worshipped reality in this intense manner."
Mark Cousins

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