Close-Up

Name: Close-Up
Released: 1990
Rating: 8.2

A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.

Filmistani88

IMDb8.227K

449votes

CrimeDramaDarkEmotional DepthHidden GemPhilosophical

Why Watch

A Crime, Drama pick with emotionally resonant storytelling — Filmistani Score 88.

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Synopsis

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.