Close-Up
Close-Up

Close-Up (1990)

PG-135/9/1990Crime, Drama1h 38m
80%
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"A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved."

Overview

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.

Abbas Kiarostami

Director

Hassan Aghakarimi

Producer