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Close-Up
کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک
1990 · Film · 98 min
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
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.
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You should definitely watch documentaries, as long as you first watch Orson Welles's masterpiece F for Fake as a pre-req. That or Abbas Kiarostami's Close Up. Then you are free to watch as many documentaries as you please.
From the last four years: (I'm a professional critic, thus watch almost everything)
1. Gunda. A mother pig.
2. An insignificant man. Politics in India.
3. Mr Bachmann and his class. A teacher.
4. Icarus. The doping scandal.
All time:
https://letterboxd.com/rurban/films/ratings/genre/documentary/by/your-rating/
Gunda, The real dirt on Farmer Joe, Models (Seidl), Warheads (Karmakar), The Land of the Enlightened, Close-Up (Kiarostami), The Wild Parrots of Telegraf Hill, ...
I simply love this film and so many of Kiarostami. Close-up wins out in my top 3 because of just how brilliantly he and his found-actor make use of each other. To perfect ends.
(Where is the friend's house, and Through the olive trees are my other favourites, though truly all are fantastic)
Context: this is Hossein Sabzian.
> Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. 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. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.
https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up