Close-Up (1990)
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.Close-Up featuring Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Monoochehr Ahankhah is streaming with subscription on The Criterion Channel, streaming with subscription on Kanopy, available for rent or purchase on iTunes, and 2 others. It's a documentary and drama movie with a high IMDb audience rating of 8.2 (21,090 votes).
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Available to stream on a subscription service (The Criterion Channel and Kanopy).
Available to rent or buy from $3.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Apple TV, and Prime Video).
Not available to watch free online.
Not available to stream on a TV everywhere service.
#137 Ranked in Movies on The Criterion Channel
#363 Ranked in Documentary Movies
#510 Ranked in Movies on Kanopy
Close-Up has a high IMDb audience rating of 8.2 (21,090 votes). The movie is somewhat popular with Reelgood users lately.
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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.