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Context: this is Hossein Sabzian. > Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema o
by pizza 5y ago
Context: this is Hossein Sabzian.
> Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. 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. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.
https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up
- telesilla 5y agoI simply love this film and so many of Kiarostami. Close-up wins out in my top 3 because of just how brilliantly he and his found-actor make use of each other. To perfect ends. (Where is the friend's house, and Through the olive trees are my other favourites, though truly all are fantastic)
- srcreigh 5y agoThis is on my list now. Sounds similar to one of my favs, Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation, a movie about himself and his alter ego struggling to write an adaptation of a book.
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- dang 5y agohttps://www.bidoun.org/articles/kiarostami-s-close-up-revisited https://www.bidoun.org/articles/kiarostami-s-close-up-revisi... is interesting too.
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- somberi 5y ago+1. If I am forced to choose just one "TV subscription" it will be Criterion. A close second will be Mubi. I see Mubi as the millennial's Criterion.
- PyWoody 5y agoI had never heard of Mubi before but, ```The Auteurs was founded in 2007 by Efe Çakarel, who began work on the business model for MUBI after being unable to watch In the Mood for Love online while in a café in Tokyo.```[0] speaks to me on a spiritual level. I'll have to check it out. Thanks! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mubi_(streaming_service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mubi_(streaming_service)