Abbas Kiarostami'nin Kirazın Tadı'nda Minimalist Anlatı: Bir Yoldaşlık, Bir İntihar

Minimalist cinema refers to a filmmaking style that simplifies content by avoiding visual and narrative complexity. Films in this style often feature a limited number of characters, settings, and dialogues, focusing instead on atmosphere and visual elements to provide viewers with a profound experience. Minimalist cinema tends to strip stories of unnecessary details, emphasizing essential components to engage the audience on a deeper level. This approach seeks to create visual simplicity while simultaneously conveying significant meaning. Minimalist cinema, by reducing the narrative to its core elements and avoiding superfluous details, invites the audience on an intellectual and emotional journey. Employing minimal characters, locations, and dialogue, this style emphasizes visual simplicity and atmospheric intensity to deliver a compelling experience. Through its stripped-down narrative and visual style, minimalist cinema serves as a vehicle to explore deeper philosophical and emotional themes. Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry (1997) stands out as a striking example of this approach in contemporary cinema. This study aims to examine Abbas Kiarostami's minimalist cinematic philosophy and its realization in Taste of Cherry using thematic analysis. The film's visual simplicity, measured dialogue, and thematic depth, presented through a minimalist narrative, highlight Kiarostami's mastery as a filmmaker. This analysis seeks to uncover the reflections of minimalist storytelling in cinema and evaluate Kiarostami's unique contributions to this genre. The study will analyze Taste of Cherry through thematic analysis, exploring the depth of meaning and emotional intensity that minimalist storytelling brings to the film. This method will examine the visual, auditory, and narrative elements of the film within specific thematic frameworks, aiming to illuminate the dynamics of Kiarostami's minimalist cinematic language.