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DramaDocumentary19901h 38m
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Close-Up (1990)

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Drama Documentary 19901h 38m

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).

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#5,614 Ranked Movie

#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.

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Runtime: 1h 38m

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Related Genres: DramaDocumentary
Country of origin: Iran
Available to watch on: The Criterion ChannelKanopy
Original Release Date: May 9, 1990