Close-Up (1990)

A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.

• Crime
• Drama

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.

Rating

8 / 10 (474 votes)

Release date

May 9, 1990

Runtime

1h 38m

Language

FA

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Status

Released