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CLOSE UP
NEMA-YE NAZDIK
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
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CLOSE UP
NEMA-YE NAZDIK
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
Country
IRAN
language
PERSIAN
1990 year
98 Minutes

Synopsis

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. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up – one of Kiarostami’s most radical, brilliant works – has resonated with viewers around the world.

Producer(s) or Production Company: Hassan Agha Karimi
Screenplay: Abbas Kiarostami
Director of Photography: Ali-Reza Zarrindast
Editor: Abbas Kiarostami
Music: Kambiz Roushanavan
Sound: N/A
Cast: Hossein Sabzian, Abolfazi Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Houshang Shamai
Awards - Winner: Montréal Festival of New Cinema (Quebec Film Critics Award - Best Film), Istanbul FF (FIPRESCI Prize)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Cahiers du Cinéma(Best Film of the 1990s - Best Film, Top 10 Film Award - Best Film)
Director's Biography
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ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Abbas Kiarostami born on the 22nd of June, 1940 in Teheran. From 1960 to 1968 he started his cinematographic career designing credits and directing advertisements. By 1970 he directs numerous short films and then features. His favourite subject being 'the child' until 1991. He prefers to work with non-actors in natural surroundings. His work is marked by a keen Chekhovian sense of humour, tinted with poetry. At the end of the 1980s Kiarostami obtains well-deserved international recognition.