Close-Up
کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک
1990IranLanguage: faDirected by Abbas Kiarostami★ 7.9
Available in English: subtitled
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.
Themes and style
Tone
melancholichauntingsurrealquietly devastating
Pacing
slow burnmethodicaldreamlike
Story
investigationunravelingcon deception
Emotion
figuring out who you areshamelongingbelongingguilt
Themes
class and moneypovertycaught between worldsold ways vs. new world
Feel
cerebralquietly hauntingdiscussion starterrewatchable
Violence
none