If you loved Il sapore della ciliegia, try Close Up
Un ponte tra un film che hai già visto e uno che quasi nessuno ha incrociato. Questo è ciò che condividono, e ciò che il secondo fa che il primo non fa.
Cosa condividono
Both films are directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and they both carry the foreign gem, outsider mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Il sapore della ciliegia, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Close Up is
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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