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.

Genre: Crime, Drama

Release date: 1990-02-01

Country of origin: Islamic Republic of Iran

Length: 1h 38m

Ratings:

• 8.2/10
• 89%
• 92/100