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Close-Up is a 1990 film directed, written, and edited by Abbas Kiarostami. The movie features Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Kiarostami in the cast. It is a docufiction and trial film produced by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults and Kanoon. The narrative takes place in Iran, with the country of origin listed as Iran and France. The original language is Persian.
The film has a runtime of 98 minutes and was released on May 9, 1990. It is available via video on demand through providers such as the Criterion Channel. Critical assessments include a Bechdel test evaluation. Review scores include 8.3 out of 10, 92 out of 100, 89 percent, and 8.2 out of 10. The tagline describes the work as a real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.
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7.9This 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.
Cast
- Hossain Sabzian as Self
- Monoochehr Ahankhah as Self
- Mahrokh Ahankhah as Self
- Abolfazl Ahankhah as Self
- Mehrdad Ahankhah as Self
- Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi as Self
Themes
- movie business
- teheran (tehran), iran
- reenactment
- filmmaker
- understated
- dignified
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- docufiction
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- Persian
- Director
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Screenwriter
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast member
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Production company
- Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults
- Narrative location
- Iran
- Duration
- 93
- FilmAffinity ID
- 301886
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- کلوز آپ انگلیسی (پوستر).jpg
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- publication date
- 1990-01-01
- film editor
- Abbas Kiarostami
- title
- کلوزآپ
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 8.2/10
- Commons category
- Close Up (1990)
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