Close-Up
1990 · directed by Abbas Kiarostami
- Rating
- 96/100
- Hit
- yes
- Prestige lists
- BFI Top 100, TSPDT 250, Criterion
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.
Close-Up (1990), directed by Abbas Kiarostami, rates 96/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Hossain Sabzian
- Monoochehr Ahankhah
- Mahrokh Ahankhah
- Abolfazl Ahankhah
- Mehrdad Ahankhah
- Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
- Hossain Farazmand
- Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni
- Hooshang Shamaei
- Mohammad Ali Barrati
Crew
- Ali Reza Zarrindast — Director of Photography
- Abbas Kiarostami — Editor
- Abbas Kiarostami — Writer
More from Abbas Kiarostami
- Taste of Cherry (1997) — 93/100 · hit
- Where Is The Friend's House? (1987) — 88/100 · hit
- And Life Goes On (1992) — 87/100 · hit
- Through the Olive Trees (1994) — 81/100 · hit
- The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) — 80/100 · hit
- Lumière & Company (1995) — 80/100 · hit
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