TY  - ADVS
AU  - Kiarostami,Abbas
AU  - Makhmalbāf,Muhsin
TI  - Close-up: Nema-ye nazdik 
T2  - The Criterion collection
SN  - 9781604652819 :
AV  - PN1997 .C58 2001
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Chicago, IL
PB  - The Criterion Collection
KW  - Sabzian, Hossein
KW  - Motion picture producers and directors
KW  - Drama
KW  - Deception
KW  - Iran
KW  - Drama.
KW  - Mistaken identity
KW  - Impersonation
KW  - Feature films
KW  - Motion pictures, Iranian
N1  - Originally released: Farabi Cinema Foundation, 1990; Abbas Kiarostami (director, screenplay, editor), Ali Reza Zarrin (executive producer), Ali Reza Zarrin-Dast (photography); Hossain Sabzian (himself), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (himself), Abolfazl Ahankhah (father of the family)
N2  - This docudrama comments on Iranian society. Ali Sabzian claims to a fellow passenger on the bus that he is the famous Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. He then becomes involved with his fellow passenger and her family, claiming that he has cast the family's son in a major role. At some point this tale comes unravelled, and the family takes him to court. A well-meaning judge persuades the family to drop the charges against this unemployed man. Ironically, while Ali is on trial, the maker of this current film (Abbas Kiarostami) decides to film the proceedings, and also stages reconstruction of the events leading up to the trial, using all the actual participants, but has the restaged trial end less happily
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