Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Che Ten) has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty ye and Close-Up is his most radi brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event-the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf-as the basis for a stunn multilayered investigation into mov ident artistic creat and existe in which the real people from the case play themselves. With i universal themes and fascinating narrative kn Close-Up continues to resonate with viewers around the world.