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DVD • May 9, 1990 • 1h 38m • U

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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 ... More

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Other Titles:	クローズ・アップ
Sub Genres:	film maker, teheran (tehran), iran, movie business, reenactment, postmodern, trial, impersonation, motorcycle, film making, dignified
Release Date:	Theatre 05/09/1990, Theatre US 12/31/1999, DVD 03/19/2002
Language:	Persian (FA)
Age Rating:	U
Director:	Abbas Kiarostami
Type:	Movie
Links:	Movies Countdown, TVDB, IMDB, Letterboxd, TMDB, WIKIEN

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for something like 5 years i had fear from watching this movie, till today. kiarostami embodies a full atomosfere of their own. every frame is a perfect composed photography. this movie is not just a must watch is something like a essential one for who love cinema. read more

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情景再现纪录片，想拍的人被阿巴斯说服做了主演，主角是梦想的小偷。据说这是阿巴斯自己最喜欢的作品，依旧颠簸在路上，结尾一个特写定格，一抹羞涩的微笑，一盆温暖的小花。 read more

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didn't click with me... the unique storytelling was not as fulfilling or entertaining as i thought it would be. had to finish over the course of a few days. i still have very high hopes for the rest of kiarostami's filmography, maybe i can come back to this after and have a new found appreciation for it! *watched because i saw michael cera give high praise in his criterion closet video* read more

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Close-up: Prison and Escape By Godfrey Cheshire ESSAYS — JUN 22, 2010 In the autumn of 1989, the Iranian magazine Sorush printed a story about an unusual crime: a poor man had been arrested for impersonating a celebrated film director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, to a middle-class family in northern Tehran. Although the accused, Hossein Sabzian, had accepted some money from the Ahankhah family, the main motivation for his ruse did not appear to be financial. Rather, he and the Ahankhahs shared a love of cinema, and after an initial impulsive lie about his identity during a chance encounter,... read more

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April 18, 2024 - by Rodolfo França de Souza

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For something like 5 years i had fear from watching this movie, till today. Kiarostami embodies a full atomosfere of their own. Every frame is a perfect composed photography. This movie is not just a must watch is something like a essential one for who love cinema. read more

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