Crime · Drama
Iranian (کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک)
1990 · Directed by Abbas Kiarostami · 98 min
In Tehran, a man is arrested for passing himself off as a famous film director to a middle-class family. Abbas Kiarostami turns the real case into a quiet, strange inquiry, with the people involved playing themselves. It is part documentary, part reconstruction, and it keeps asking what you are looking at.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of post-revolutionary Iranian cinema and of modern hybrid filmmaking, it helped establish Iran as one of the most inventive national cinemas of the 1990s.
Watch with intention
Ask of every scene how much is record, how much is arrangement, and why the film wants you to wonder.
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