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Close-up (1990)

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This fiction-documentary hybrid uses the real-life arrest of a man who impersonated a well-known filmmaker as the basis for a multilayered investigation into identity and artistic creation, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

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Title	Close-up (1990)
Runtime	1 hr. 37 min.
Director	Abbas Kiarostami
Country	Iran
Studio	Criterion Collection
Genres	Drama
Description	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.