Close-Up

Name: Close-Up
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Released: 1990-05-09T00:00:00Z

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.

Runtime: 98

Release date: 1990-05-09

<article> <figure> <img src="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/uvosDEp9iWUfQ0kuWVou8GemDaA.jpg" title='Close-Up' alt='Close-Up'/> </figure> <h1>Close-Up</h1> <p>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.</p> <details><summary>Runtime: 98</summary> <summary>Release date: 1990-05-09</summary></details> </article>