Close-Up - 1990

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.

98min
1990
Released
Trakio rating0.0/10
IMDB rating8.2/10

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Close-Up 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.

Runtime: 98min

Extra details

Original Title: کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک
Original Language: Persian
Directed By: Abbas Kiarostami
Production Companies
Kanoon