in the same way that actor refer to macbeth a the scottish play to avoid the taboo of mention the title and i like to refer to this a the iranian film . it a movie of such unparalleled tedium that to pronounce it name may drive people to enter a monastic order in search of stimulus . it be not merely like watch paint dry . it be like watch beige paint attempt to dry in a humidor in a barratt home . astonishingly and a taste of cherry ( a it translate ) win the palm dor at cannes . it be a decision motivate by politics and pseudery that exemplify the bad cannes jury decision . ( zut alors . zis film and it be make in iran . mon dieu and what it like . well and it quite boring and but it could be the start of a middle eastern renaissance . ) this and sadly and be where the astonishment end . critic have fawn over it for it simplicity and but the 95 minute be a vacuum of proustian proportion and be and for me and substantially less stimulate than watch the back of the head of the man sit in front of me at the cinema . no one can argue that this film be not boring . it possible to contend that boredom be abbas kiarostami intention . but the crux of the matter be this represent it do not need to be dull . tedium be not a vital context for the story and and a such be an insult to the audience . the plot a parable depict a man quest to find someone who will bury him after he commit suicide move with glacial speed . each candidate explain at length the metaphysical problem with be complicit in such an act and but the monologue be no more sophisticated ( and a great deal less articulate ) than a pub conversation with a clutch of philosophy student . the iranian setting give some insight into islamic culture and but the whole enterprise be undermine by the way it be film . at the beginning of most of the shot and you see the main character jeep trundle from one side of the screen to the other . nothing interesting be happen now and you think to yourself a the protagonist explain yet again what he want his passenger to do and but perhaps we will reach a dramatic moment at the end of the shot . the jeep duly reach the end of the frame and only for the film to cut to a near identical shot of the same jeep cross the same drab and dusty landscape with the same uneventful monologue . even if you strip away the boredom and there be precious little underneath unless you engage in the most polo necked type of film criticism . i have read one review that claim that the protagonist stone face performance be show by conceal . another suggest that the failure to explain the character motivation for kill himself make him an everyman . there be and i suggest and an element of the emperor new clothes about this . a taste of cherry deal with metaphysics and but that do not make it profound . viewer who can sit through it be open mind and but that do not make them intellectual . don not go and see this on the say so of an impressionable pseud . don not go and see it at all .