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Film · 1990 · Drama

Close-Up

Name: Close-Up
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Genre: Drama, Docudrama
Released: 1990

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

1990

★ 8.1 editorial score

Kiarostami blurred documentary and fiction so completely that nobody has quite untangled it since: a man caught impersonating a director, with everyone involved playing themselves on camera.

Genre

Drama Docudrama

Subject

Identity Filmmaking Deception

Setting

Tehran

Time

1990Depicts 1980s

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