Close-Up

Abbas Kiarostami · 1990 CE · Film · Persian · Contemporary

In Tehran an unemployed film enthusiast passes himself off as the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to a middle-class family, promising to cast them in his next picture. Kiarostami hears of the arrest, gets a camera into the trial, and has everyone involved play themselves in reconstructions of what happened. The trial and the movie become one event.

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