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Movie title: Where Is the Friend's House? Original title: Khane-ye doust kodjast? Release year: 1987 Director: Abbas Kiarostami After I finished watching Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House , I switched off the tv. Opened the book I was reading, read a few pages, and closed it. I wiped our dining-slash-ironing-slash-internat-cafe table. Then started ironing and folding clothes, a chore I have been neglecting for a few days. I ironed all the clothes without feeling bored, without accompanying music with it. I was noticing beauty in a slightly unattended tea cup, I was feeling grateful for my home. I lighted two candles in the living room, just so the room looks like a pleasant view from where I am standing to iron my clothes. This is my third movie from Kiarostami. While watching Taste of Cherry and The Wind will Carry Us , I was a little impatient. The Iranian mountainside caught my heart, but I was waiting for the story to “complete”. But the movies indeed taught me somet...

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