Close-Up

About Close-Up

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.

Close-Up is a 1990 crime film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. Its themes are movie business, understated, dignified, and filmmaker.

Hossain Sabzian takes the lead as Self, Monoochehr Ahankhah as Self, Mahrokh Ahankhah as Self, and Abolfazl Ahankhah as Self. At 98 minutes long, it arrived in May 1990.

The screenplay is by Abbas Kiarostami.

Monica and Girls State make useful companions to Close-Up. TMDB voters put it at 8.0 out of 10 across 474 votes and it carries a NR rating.