Close-Up

About Close-Up

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.

Where to Watch

Stream on The Criterion Channel, Kanopy. Rent on Amazon, Fandango at Home, AppleTV (cheapest: $3.99). Buy on Amazon, Fandango at Home, AppleTV (cheapest: $14.99).

Cast & Crew

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Starring Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah

Produced by Kanoon