Life Goes On

This film (drama)Also known asزندگی و دیگر هیچ，is aIranProducerwomen sex，At1992Released in year 。The dialogue language isPersian，Current Douban rating8.8(For reference only)。

In 1990, a major earthquake struck northwestern Iran, and the filming location of the movie "Where Is My Friend's House" is in this region. The director drove there with his son to look for the actors in the film. The villagers they encountered along the way, who survived the disaster, did not exhibit the sorrowful demeanor one might expect, but instead actively engaged in rebuilding their lives and cherished life even more. Especially touching was a young couple who held their wedding the day after the earthquake, demonstrating the resilience of the villagers who had experienced such calamity. In the end, they did not find the actors portraying the two young protagonists, but some claimed to have seen them just moments before. The audience might remember the lovely young actor from "Where Is My Friend's House"; in 1990, disaster struck his hometown, as the earthquake nearly annihilated everything. The young actor was missing and unaccounted for, and Abbas returned to the area in a car to search for him. Along the way, the director witnessed many shocking scenes: ruins, grieving people, death… However, what surprised the director was that people did not drown in grief, but instead gathered their spirits to rebuild their homes after the disaster. The presence of death made the living cherish life even more, living with greater courage. Hope had not been lost, and a high point in the film is when a couple holds a wedding after the earthquake. Ultimately, the young actor was not found, which added a touch of melancholy to the film's otherwise uplifting tone. Behind the scenes: The film documents the observations made on the way to the disaster area and won the Rossellini Humanitarian Spirit Award and the Golden Camera at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. Watching this film feels like a dream; insights about life are peeled away layer by layer from the journey of searching, as if one is on a long trip with Abbas, with time passing slowly and subtly in the tranquility of varied landscapes. It’s quite interesting. The Japanese director Akira Kurosawa once called Abbas’s work "incomparable;" whether this comment might be too much is not up to this context to define, but in this film, Abbas’s calmness and compassionate spirit indeed warrant the title of a master. His reflections on life are Abbas's unending inquiries and sources of creative inspiration. Some scenes in this film will reappear in "The Lover Under the Olive Tree," further demonstrating the notion that film is a form of "dream-making." This film, along with the earlier "Where Is My Friend's House" and the later "The Lover Under the Olive Tree," forms the "Village Trilogy."