Close-Up (1990)

8.0

Crime Drama

98 min min

1990

Hossain Sabzian Monoochehr Ahankhah Mahrokh Ahankhah Abolfazl Ahankhah Mehrdad Ahankhah

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 play themselves.