Close-Up

Type:
Feature Film

Director:
Abbas Kiarostami

Year:
1990

Time:
98 minutes

Language:
Farsi w/ English subtitles

"A Masterpiece!" —The Village Voice, The Chicago Reader

"Brilliant!" —The New York Times

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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 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 play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.

DVD Special Features:

Disc One:

New, restored high-definition digital transfer

Audio commentary by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, authors of Abbas Kiarostami

The Traveler, director Abbas Kiarostami's first feature

New, improved English subtitle translation

Disc Two:

"Close-up" Long Shot, a documentary on Close-up's central figure, Hossein Sabzian, six years after the film was made

New video interview with Kiarostami

A Walk With Kiarostami, a documentary portrait of the director by Iranian film professor Jamsheed Akrami

Plus:

A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Godfrey Cheshire