Close-Up (1990)
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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.
Director:
Abbas Kiarostami, Abbas Kiarostami, Abbas Kiarostami, Ali Reza Zarrin, Ali Reza Zarrindast
Stars:
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi, Hossain Sabzian
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Release Date:
1990-05-09
Run Time:
98 minutes
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