Close-Up (1990)

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Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Runtime

98 minutes

Original release date

1990-05-09 (TMDB; may differ from the UK release)

Original title

کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک

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.