7º – Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
In the plot, a middle-aged man drives around the city where he lives in search of a person to bury him under the figure of a special tree after he commits suicide. ‘Taste of Cherry’, directed by the great Abbas Kiarostami, is a sensitive drama about the human heart of the world, bringing a sad story, but which manages to involve and move the viewer every minute.
6º – Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985)
Using a playful atmosphere to create his work, Paul Schrader delivers here the most impressive film of his career as a director. A film that takes advantage almost exclusively of the brilliance of his script to grant the necessary substance to the work. ‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters’ is intense from beginning to end, always asking in its essence the basic concepts that govern the attitudes of human beings, such as the precept of the will to power, existentialism and suicide as an instrument of glorification.
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