Close-up
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. 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. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, authors of Abbas Kiarostami
- The Traveler, director Abbas Kiarostami’s first feature
- “Close-up” Long Shot, a documentary on Close-up’s central figure, Hossein Sabzian, six years after the film
- New video interview with Kiarostami
- A Walk with Kiarostami (2003), a documentary portrait of the director by Iranian film professor Jamsheed Akrami
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Godfrey Cheshire
New cover by Eric Skillman
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, authors of Abbas Kiarostami
- The Traveler, director Abbas Kiarostami’s first feature
- “Close-up” Long Shot, a documentary on Close-up’s central figure, Hossein Sabzian, six years after the film
- New video interview with Kiarostami
- A Walk with Kiarostami (2003), a documentary portrait of the director by Iranian film professor Jamsheed Akrami
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Godfrey Cheshire
New cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Hossein Sabzian
- Abolfazi Ahankhah
- Mahrokh Ahankhah
- Mehrdad Ahankhah
- Houshang Shamai
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Hassan Farazmand
Credits
- Director
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Screenplay
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Photography
- Ali-Reza Zarrindast
- Editing
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Music (theme from The Traveler)
- Kambiz Roushanavan
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