Close-Up

1990 • 1h 38m • Crime, Drama

89%Rotten Tomatoes

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

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

Writers

Abbas Kiarostami

Status

Released