Close-Up (1990 film)
1990
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Apr 5, 2023 · Abbas Kiarostami - 'Close-Up'. 4.5. When it comes to one of the most accomplished filmmakers of all time, it is undoubtedly a very difficult task to select one single work as the magnum opus. Over the course of his illustrious career, Iranian New Wave maestro Abbas Kiarostami has created multiple masterpieces like Where is the Friend’s House ...
10/10. 10/10. desperateliving 12 August 2003. Method acting is taken to the extreme in the case of this film's main character, Sabzian, a real-life person who impersonated a real-life filmmaker (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) he deeply admired, and who is taken to court by a family he has deceived -- and has his trial filmed by Abbas Kiarostami.
Oct 30, 1991 · Close-Up: Directed by Abbas Kiarostami. With Hossain Sabzian, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi. The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
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- Abbas Kiarostami
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
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Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. 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...
The Criterion Collection presents Abbas Kiarostami’s 1990 film Close-Upin its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on the first dual-layer disc of this two-disc set. The picture has been window-boxed. Similar to the Blu-ray edition the image found on the DVD is held back because of the source materials. The film, which follows the actual case of a man w...
The Dolby Digital 1.0 mono track doesn’t sound great, limited by the source materials and the equipment used to record the audio. Voices sound very harsh and distorted, almost machine like at moments, and music during the final sequence suffers from the same problems. Audio drops during the last sequence as well, though this is all purposefully don...
In the supplement department this is one of the more satisfying releases from Criterion. The supplements have been split out over the two discs. The first disc presents an audio commentaryby film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum and filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa. Though I guess it was maybe a little lighter than I would have expected it’s a surprisingly br...
The transfer looks about as good as it probably can on the format, primarily limited by the source materials. But the supplements make this release a winner. While I would still recommend the Blu-ray over this edition, the DVD is still an excellent release for those that haven’t moved to the high-def format yet. It comes with a high recommendation....
The take. The apex of Abbas Kiarostami’s monumental filmography, Close-Up is a testament to the late directors’ ingenuity and humanism. Kiarostami documents the real-life trial of a man who impersonated fellow Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and ingratiated himself to a family believing him to be the real deal.
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Jul 25, 2015 · Close-up. Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently ...
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 ...
