Close-up
کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک
Iran • 1990
Director
#519Criterion Collection →Synopsis
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and CLOSE-UP is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, CLOSE-UP has resonated with viewers around the world.
Synopsis
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and CLOSE-UP is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, CLOSE-UP has resonated with viewers around the world.
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Credits
Crew
DirectorAbbas Kiarostami
WriterAbbas Kiarostami
CinematographerAli Reza Zarrindast
EditorAbbas Kiarostami
ProducerHassan Aghakarimi
Cast
Hossain Sabzianas Self
Monoochehr Ahankhahas Self
Mahrokh Ahankhahas Self
Abolfazl Ahankhahas Self
Mehrdad Ahankhahas Self
