Cinematic background from Close-Up 1990 - 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.

Close-Up

1990

Biography, Crime, Drama

Directors:
Abbas Kiarostami
Writers:
Abbas Kiarostami
Official poster of Close-Up 1990 directed by [object Object]
An older man with a beard wearing a white turban
A man riding down the side of a street with a suitcase
A man with a briefcase standing in front of an open door
A man walking down the street holding a bouquet of flowers