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Close-Up (1990)
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A man allows a stranger to believe he is a celebrated director, and a moment of borrowed importance acquires real consequences. Kiarostami brings the people involved into courtroom footage and reconstructions of their own encounters. The fascination lies in listening past the deception to the longing beneath it. Its shifting documentary form asks you to examine the act of judging, too.
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About Close-Up
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.