# Close-up (1990)

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**Original title**: *کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک*
**Runtime**: 98 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Abbas Kiarostami
**Written by**: Abbas Kiarostami
**Starring**: Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi

> *A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, cerebral, outsider

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