Close-Up (1990)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
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What critics compared Close-Up to
The core factor that provides the film its intrinsic spark is Zhao’s approach itself, which is deeply reverential to the reflexive metafiction of Abbas Kiarostami’s own masterpiece Close-Up (a must-watch if you haven’t had the pleasure).