Close-Up (film)

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Close-Up
Image:Close Up Film Poster.png
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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Close-Up (film) at the Internet Movie Database
Close-Up at the Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films list

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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) • Lumiere 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)
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