If you loved Taste of Cherry, try Close-Up
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
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 Taste of Cherry, 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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