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  • 1999
  • Not Rated
  • Facets Multimedia Distribution
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 1999
  • Not Rated
  • Facets Multimedia Distribution
  • 1 h 38 m
Close-Up

Summary This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a real-life sensational event - a young man arrested on charges that he fraudulently impersonated well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf - as the basis for a stunning, multi-layered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and life itself. With its universal themes and fascinating narra...

Directed By: Abbas Kiarostami

Written By: Abbas Kiarostami

  • 1999
  • Not Rated
  • Facets Multimedia Distribution
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 1999
  • Not Rated
  • Facets Multimedia Distribution
  • 1 h 38 m

Close-Up

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 15 Critic Reviews
must-see
92
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 30 User Ratings
8.6
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Summary This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a real-life sensational event - a young man arrested on charges that he fraudulently impersonated well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf - as the basis for a stunning, multi-layered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and life itself. With its universal themes and fascinating narra...

Directed By: Abbas Kiarostami

Written By: Abbas Kiarostami

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Universal Acclaim Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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100
It's enormously intelligent stuff, witty, poignant and thoroughly engrossing, and ends with one of the sharpest, funniest deconstructions of film form ever shot. Absolutely wonderful.
By Geoff Andrew FULL REVIEW
100
A dense and subtle masterpiece.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW
100
From the outset, the director lets us know that this won’t be some sensationalistic crime story. Close-Up is more about the power of images, and how what’s on the screen at any given moment can hold our attention completely, even if it has nothing to do with “the story.”
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
90
Close-Up is two films in one, a hugely skilful work of cinematic origami about doubles and doubling.
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90
It is Mr. Sabzian's poignancy that makes "Close-Up" much more than a clever reflection on film-versus-life as an endless hall of mirrors.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
75
"There's nothing about this place worth filming," insists one character, but Kiarostami always comes up with something: a Tati-like scene in which a canister rolls down a street, all but waiting to be kicked, and several exotic glimpses of urban life, including a turkey salesman who carries a couple of unplucked birds through the Tehran streets. [26 Feb 1999]
By John Hartl FULL REVIEW
75
If Close-Up is not much to look at, it certainly enthralls the mind. [09 Feb 1996, p.16G]
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 30 User Ratings
8.6
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10% Mixed
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Universal Acclaim Based on 30 User Ratings
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10% Mixed
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3% Negative
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Production Company Kanun parvaresh fekri
Release Date Dec 31, 1999
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.sourehcinema.com/Title/Title.aspx?id=138109201488
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Awards

Cahiers du Cinéma
• 2 Nominations
Montréal Festival of New Cinema
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Istanbul Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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