Synopsis
“Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker
Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and
Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. 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.” – Janus Films
