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Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
A dense and subtle masterpiece.
Close-Up (کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک)
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- Iran
- 1990
- · 98m
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Cast
Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
Monoochehr Ahankhah,
Mahrokh Ahankhah,
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
Genre
Crime,
Documentary,
Drama
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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What are critics saying?
100
Slant Magazine by Ed Gonzalez
Call it what you will (documentary, mockumentary, self-fulfilling prophecy), Close-Up is still the definitive film-on-film commentary.
100
LarsenOnFilm by Josh Larsen
Does Close-Up reveal the truth? I’d prefer to say it reveals the beauty of distortion.
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The A.V. Club by Noel Murray
From the outset, the director lets us know that this won’t be some sensationalistic crime story. Close-Up is more about the power of images, and how what’s on the screen at any given moment can hold our attention completely, even if it has nothing to do with “the story.”
100
Time Out by Keith Uhlich
The meanings of Close-Up shift, subtly and profoundly, with every viewing; the only certainty is that its rewards are boundless.
100
Time Out by Geoff Andrew
It's enormously intelligent stuff, witty, poignant and thoroughly engrossing, and ends with one of the sharpest, funniest deconstructions of film form ever shot. Absolutely wonderful.
100
Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy
There aren't many works of art out there that so rupture your sense of the familiar. It may play slowly, but it blazes its way into your head. [14 Jul 2000]
90
The Independent
Close-Up is two films in one, a hugely skilful work of cinematic origami about doubles and doubling.
90
The New Yorker by Richard Brody
In Kiarostami’s furiously clear view, religious dogma suppresses the eye’s observations through the dictate of the word; his calmly unwavering images, with their wry humor and generous sympathy, have the force of a steadfast resistance.
90
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
It is Mr. Sabzian's poignancy that makes "Close-Up" much more than a clever reflection on film-versus-life as an endless hall of mirrors.
90
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Like nearly every other Kiarostami film, Close-Up takes questions about movies and makes them feel like questions of life and death.
80
Los Angeles Times
Close-Up is perhaps the emblematic work of the so-called Iranian New Wave, summing up its methods and preoccupations and also bringing together two of its key figures, Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
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