Close-Up
Close-Up

Close-Up (1990)
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IMDb 8.2/10
TMDb 79/100
Letterboxd 4.4/5
Trakt 80/100
Metacritic 92/100
Rotten Tomatoes 88/100

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.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Genres: Crime, Drama

Runtime: 98 minutes

Release Date: 1990-05-09

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