Close Up (1991)
Festival Rating
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. 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. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.
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DirectorsAbbas Kiarostami
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ProducersKanoon
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WritersAbbas Kiarostami
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ActorHossain Sabzian
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ActorMohsen Makhmalbaf
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CinematographerAli Reza Zarrindast
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EditorAbbas Kiarostami
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Film TypeFeature
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GenresArt House ,Experimental,New Wave
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Runtime1 hours 38 minutes 0 seconds
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Completion Date31 Jan, 1991
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Production BudgetUSD
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Country of OriginIran
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Country of FilmingIran
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Film LanguagePersian
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Shooting Format
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Aspect Ratio
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Film ColorColor
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Student ProjectNo
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First-time FilmmakerNo
Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and Video: Quebec Film Critics Award
International Istanbul Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize