Tragic news via The Guardian: Abbas Kiarostami, one of the greatest filmmakers of my lifetime — or anyone’s lifetime — has died.
Kiarostami was one of the most important figures in the history of Iranian cinema, but he’s also a hugely influential player in the history of world cinema.
Kiarostami was undergoing treatment for gastrointestinal cancer; he had been diagnosed with the disease in March of 2016.
Kiarostami cast all the major players in the real-life drama as themselves and recreated the true events in reenactments.