Close-up.

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 charg...

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Other Authors: Ahankhah, Abolfazi (Actor), Ahankhah, Mehrdad (Actor)
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Janus Films (The Criterion Collection), 1990.
Kanopy Streaming, 2018.
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Summary: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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Physical Description:1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Playing Time:01:38:00
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.