InternationaIIy revered Iranian fiImmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-Up is his most radicaI, briIliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-Iife event - the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulentIy impersonated well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf - as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the reaI people from the case play themselves. With its universaI themes and fascinating narrative knots, CIose-Up continues to resonate with viewers around the world. |