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Oct 30, 1991 · Close-Up: Directed by Abbas Kiarostami. With Hossain Sabzian, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi. The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
Close-Up ( Persian: کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک, Klūzāp, nemā-ye nazdīk) is a 1990 Iranian docufiction written, directed and edited by Abbas Kiarostami. The film tells the story of the real-life trial of a man who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film. [1]
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 ...
Apr 20, 2022 · 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.
Jul 25, 2015 · 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.
Watchlist. Page 1 of 2, 6 total items. Page 1 of 2, 3 total items. While reading a novel by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf on the bus, Ali Sabzian strikes up a conversation with a pretty girl...
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Close-Up is pretty damn flawless. It is a minimalistic yet nothing short of unique, humanistic, sad and layered work of empathy, understanding; a film about film, art and how it affects us. About wanting to be someone you're not.
