lnternationaIIy revered lranian fiImmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and CIose-Up is his most radicaI, brilIiant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensationaI reaI-life event - the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulentIy impersonated weIl-known fiImmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf - as the basis for a stunning, muItiIayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themseIves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-Up continues to resonate with viewers around the worId. |