The read
Scores higher than 98% of the 702 1990s crime movies in this catalog.
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.
Ratings
IMDb8.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Metacritic92/100
459 audience votes
Key crew
- Abbas KiarostamiWriter
- Abbas KiarostamiDirector
Cast
- Hossain SabzianSelf
- Monoochehr AhankhahSelf
- Mahrokh AhankhahSelf
- Abolfazl AhankhahSelf
- Mehrdad AhankhahSelf
- Nayer Mohseni ZonooziSelf
- Hossain FarazmandReporter
- Ahmad Reza Moayed MohseniFamily Friend
- Hooshang ShamaeiTaxi Driver
- Mohammad Ali BarratiSoldier
- Davood GoodarziSergeant
- Haj Ali Reza AhmadiJudge
Stills
Movies like Close-Up
Shows like Close-Up
Themes
movie businessteheran (tehran), iranreenactmentfilmmakerunderstateddignified
The Best Movies of 1990
Close-Up is #2 of 60
