Primer plano

You wake as Sabzian, a bus-route clerk with two children and mounting debts. You pretend to be Makhmalbaf on a Tehran porch and everything tilts. Then the camera rolls, the real comes undone, and identity folds like paper. Kiarostami’s hybrid blurs the line between life and art, leaving you unsure where one ends and the other begins.

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Abbas Kiarostami directed Primer plano in 1990. See Abbas Kiarostami's full filmography, where to start with Abbas Kiarostami, or where to go after you've seen everything by Abbas Kiarostami.

Primer plano was released in 1990 (FA original-language production), with a runtime of 98 minutes.