Close-Up

1990 · Directed by Abbas Kiarostami · 93 min · docufiction, trial film

★ 8.0/10 · 462 ratings on TMDB

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.