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Mon 08 Aug 2008From Tehran with love, passion and innocence
The films of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami are banned in his home country but now the authorities want to screen his latest work, and he is having none of it, he tells Angelique Chrisafis
AS HE WALKS down the half-lit stairwell of a Paris cafe where Picasso and Modigliani used to hang out, Abbas Kiarostami takes out his camera and snatches a shot of a painted frieze. "Very nice," he smiles, with the wonderment of a man abroad.
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