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.

Movie rating: 8.2 / 10 (23378)

Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami

Writer credits: Abbas Kiarostami

Cast: Hossain Sabzian - Mohsen Makhmalbaf - Abolfazl Ahankhah - Mehrdad Ahankhah - Monoochehr Ahankhah

AKA: Nema-ye Nazdik, Nema-ye Nazdik / Close-Up, Close Up

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