Close-Up (film)

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Close-Up
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Written by Abbas Kiarostami
Running time 100 min.
Country Iran
Language Persian
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Close-Up (1990) is a film directed by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. The film tells the story of the real-life trial of a man who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film. It features the people involved, acting as themselves. The dialogue is in Persian and the untranslated title is Nema-ye Nazdik. A film about human identity, it helped to increase recognition of Kiarostami in the West.

The film is set around the 1990 Iran earthquake.

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1970s
The Bread and Alley (1970)  • Breaktime (1972)  • The Experience (1973)  • The Traveller (1974)  • So Can I (1975)  • Two Solutions for One Problem (1975)  • Colors (1976)  • A Wedding Suit (1976) • How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting (1977) • The Report (1977) • Tribute to the Teachers (1977) • Solution (1978) • First Case, Second Case (1979)
1980s
Dental Hygiene (1980)  • Orderly or Disorderly (1981)  • The Chorus (1982)  • Fellow Citizen (1983)  • Toothache (1983)  • First Graders (1984)  • Where Is the Friend's Home (1987)  • Homework (1989)
1990s
Close-Up (1990)  • Life, and Nothing More... (1991)  • Through the Olive Trees (1994)  • A propos de Nice, la suite (1995)  • Lumière and Company (1996) • Taste of Cherry (1997) • The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
2000s
ABC Africa (2001)  • Ten (2002)  • Five (2003)  • Ten Minutes Older (2003)  • 10 on Ten (2004)  • The Roads of Kiarostami (2005)  • Tickets (2005)  • Certified Copy (2008)
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