Close-Up
A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved
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5/9/1990Runtime
98 minsOverview
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.
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A mesmerizing blur between documentary and fiction that reconstructs a true crime of impersonation to explore the slippery boundary between illusion and reality, identity and performance. Kiarostami's investigation is as much about cinema itself as it is about the young man at its center.
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