Close-Up (1990)

Kernel Score: 89% · 441 ratings

Genres: Crime, Drama

Released: 1990-05-09

Runtime: 98 minutes

Overview

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

Cast