Close-Up

Close-Up

  • Director: Abbas Kiarostami
  • Countries of origin: Iran
  • Language: Persian, Azerbaijani
  • Release date: October 30, 1991
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Primer plano
  • "Nema-ye Nazdik Close Up" is a 1990 film released by the Iranian British Film Institute, directed and written by Abbas Kiarostami, starring Mawson Makmalbaf.
    It tells the story of an unemployed painter who pretended to be the famous director Mohsin Makmalbaf and gained the trust of the wealthy Ahan Kahe family. After he was caught borrowing money to make a film, director Abbas Kiarostami launched a documentary-like follow-up investigation on the case. .

    Details

    • Release date October 30, 1991
    • Filming locations Tehran, Iran
    • Production companies Kanun parvaresh fekri, Kanun parvaresh fekri

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,670

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $2,670

    Movie reviews

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    • By Isac 2022-03-26 09:01:14

      the presence of curtains

      Abbas shocked me again.

      While watching the movie, I tried to come to two conclusions: I divided the world into two parts, the real and the spiritual; and most of us, like the law enforcement officer behind the close-up of Hussein and the one at the beginning of the movie taxi driver.

      The first is because I have observed that everyone in the film appropriately plays a certain firm role, and each event can be interpreted and classified from two aspects. For example, pretending to...

    • By Letha 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      cute counterfeit coin maker

      Thinking of the final judgment in Camus' "The Outsider," how trusting and precious it is to sometimes hear "yes, I regret it, but I am not sorry."

      Thinking of "Crime and Punishment", a small number of people bear the so-called "evil" in this world, so that the fate of the wider mankind can be changed.

      Think of Gide's Counterfeiter Maker, it's just a game, what a moving game - play a loved one, imagine how he would speak, and create new experiences as he is.

      I like...

    • By Gayle 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      I zoomed in on the camera, recorded your expression, and broadcast it to everyone

      The first Abbas work, half-documentary, half-drama, replete with courtroom close-ups and long dialogue, recounts the fraudulent affair of a film lover, Sabzion, and for the client himself that may be Just an inevitable accident.
      1. Is the movie saving or
      harming Sabzien, who lives at the bottom of society, and was abandoned by his wife because of his poor salary. Without a stable job, as a father, he cannot give his children and mother any financial support, and as a member of...

    • By Linnea 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      image

      In Tehran, journalist Farazmand went to report on the arrest of young José Sabzian for fraud. It turned out that the unemployed painter Sabzian was a movie fan. He claimed to be the famous director Muhsin Makmalbaf, and he won the trust of the rich Ahan Kahe family and borrowed money from them to make the film. After the incident, Sabzion was arrested. Director Abbas Kiarostami launched a documentary-like follow-up investigation on the case. He interviewed the police, the family of Ahan Kah,...

    • By Lemuel 2022-03-25 09:01:23

      Abbas' Ontology Experiment

      Teacher Dai Jinhua often compares film to a "parallelogram", with images, sound, time and space on the four corners. Since the development of film, "audio-visual language", as the most important and only way for film to present itself, has always been a lame-image as a visual medium has been highly developed, and a set of dazzling mise-en-scene theories have been developed. The sound as an auditory medium is uniformly named "sound effect", occupying an embarrassing position as an auxiliary...

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    • By Taryn 2023-07-10 09:59:38

      It's a very deep film. In this era when you can casually call yourself an "artist", does the weight of these three words still exist? The last time I watched Bai He participate in the exchange with Li Ruijun, he said that "close-up" is a right that few people have, but this film keeps a close-up and real for a small...

    • By Kaelyn 2023-03-04 22:49:29

      Perhaps the most touching thing is not the confession of a liar who is poor but loves film art, but that film art shakes the existence of an ordinary person. A masterpiece that is uniquely Abbasid, exploring what is the true philosophy of the...

    • By Winnifred 2023-02-14 04:43:36

      I don't really understand it, and I don't want to interpret the movie too much. This messy documentary-style storytelling is turned into a combination of art and romance under Abbas's lens and choreography. Thanks to him for bringing me the pleasure of watching the movie, I believe in the ultimate movie feeling that the true-false-documentary-plot is mixed together. In the end, he drove him on the motorcycle, he held the flower, the picture was frozen, the soundtrack played, the subtitles...

    • By Tanya 2023-01-17 19:48:11

      It was boring at first, but slowly I began to understand this laid-off worker who pretended to be a director. Sometimes another identity can be addicting. The last scene, the finishing...

    • By Dario 2023-01-15 19:27:54

      4.5 This person is acting in real life and fiction in reality but thus exposes the heart - people will easily believe that a fictional thing Abbas was inspired to deliberately make the film approximate the appearance of reality to expose the falsity of...

    Movie plot

    In Tehran , journalist Farazmand went to report on the arrest of young José Sabzian for fraud. It turned out that the unemployed painter Sabzian was a movie fan. He claimed to be the famous director Muhsin Makmalbaf, and obtained the trust of the wealthy Ahan Kahe family and borrowed money from them to make the film. After the incident, Sabzion was arrested. Director Abbas Kiarostami launched a documentary-like follow-up on the case,...
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    "Nema-ye Nazdik Close Up" is said to be Abbas's favorite work, and it won the Quebec Film Critics Award at the Montreal International Film Festival in Canada. Abbas pointed his attention to the grass-roots class in Iran. There is an interesting point in the film: although the troublemaker was arrested for fraud, he gained short-term self-confidence from impersonating the director, which is what the lower classes want to be respected....
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