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Close-Up
1990
· Movie
· 98 min
A
MEANRANK
85/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #144
- IMDb #182
- Metacritic #53
- Letterboxd #52
- Metacritic Critics #139
- Metacritic Audience #49
Every rating
77–92
out of 100
Everyone agrees
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 77, highest is Metacritic critics on 92.
See the most agreed on films →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.
Details
- Director
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Writer
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Studio
- Kanoon
- Released
- 9 May 1990
- Country
- Iran
- Language
- Persian
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- NR
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