Close-Up Movie (1990): Where to watch and stream online

Q: Where can I stream Close-Up?

You can stream Close-Up on: The Criterion Channel and Apple TV Store

Close-Up

1990, Movie, 1h 38min

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.

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Reviews

Critic Ed Gonzalez

rated

...the intimacy of their closeness is so authentic and real it almost hurts.

Read full review at Slant Magazine

Sam Khorasani

rated

Fantastiskt bra film. Väldigt originell.

3 years ago

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In this thought-provoking and deeply human film, a young man named Hossain Sabzian is arrested for impersonating the famous Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Through a series of encounters with the real people involved in the case, including Sabzian himself, director Abbas Kiarostami crafts a complex and multi-layered exploration of identity, artistic creation, and the power of cinema. As the boundaries between reality and fiction blur, we are left to ponder the true meaning of authenticity and the role that storytelling plays in our lives.

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You can stream Close-Up on: The Criterion Channel Apple TV Store