#173: Close-Up

2aqa9enmhq5ts8vh9jlygvkpnf3#173 – Close-Up, (کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک), 1990, Abbas Kiarostami
Iran

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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