Close-Up (1990)

Abbas Kiarostami · 98 min · Letterboxd ↗

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.

Close-Up screens once in London: Prince Charles Cinema, Thursday 14 January at 17:40.