A brilliant exploration of the power of movies Close-Up reconstructs the true story of a cinephile's attempt to become a filmmaker he admires. Hossein Sabzian introduces himself as celebrated Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and under the pretext of working on a film project enters the private life of a well-to-do Teheran family and eventually faces fraud charges.
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CLOSE-UP tells the story by asking questions from off-screen to those involved in the legal case then having the participants play themselves in a re-enactment of the events which actually occurred
Documentary and fiction become confused in this true tale of unemployed movie freak Hossein Sabzian, who finds himself imprisoned after being mistaken for the famous director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Sabzian's trial is then filmed by Abbas Kiarostami (the actual director of 'Close-Up').
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