Product Information
CLOSE-UP tells the story by asking questions from off-screen to those involved in the legal case, then having the participants play themselves in a re-enactment of the events which actually occurred.Product Identifiers
EAN5060103790883
eBay Product ID (ePID)59532935
Product Key Features
ActorMohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossain Sabzian
Film/TV TitleClose-Up
DirectorAbbas Kiarostami
LanguageFarsi
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time93 Mins
FormatDVD
Release Year2010
FeaturesWith Subtitles
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificateU
Country/Region of ManufactureIran
Additional InformationWith his use of non-actors and his loose use of documentary rules, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's (TASTE OF CHERRY) films can often be characterized by asking whether what the viewer is seeing is reality or fiction. The film which perhaps most exemplifies this is CLOSE-UP, ostensibly a documentary about an impostor of another Iranian director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf (GABBEH; ONCE UPON A TIME, CINEMA). Kiarostami tells the story by asking questions from off-screen to those involved in the legal case, then having the participants play themselves in a re-enactment of the events which actually occurred. A masterwork, considered by many to be Kiarostami's best.