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Close-Up Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Susan Sontag Artforum. Iranian cinema has been the great revelation of the last decade. Close Up is my (and,...
Close-up tells the true story of a man arrested for impersonating Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The film is a joy made up of mostly real footage of the trial and interviews with all involved, and also re-enactments of real events by the actual people involved.
What it's about. 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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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....
Close-Up is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time; in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, it was voted by critics one of "The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time" list. In the 2022 Sight and Sound critics' poll it was rated the 17th greatest film of all time.
- Ali Reza Zarrin
- Kanoon
- 1990
- Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Oct 30, 1991 · 67 User reviews. 57 Critic reviews. 92 Metascore. Awards. 2 wins & 2 nominations. Photos 46. Top cast.
