Nema-ye Nazdik
Directed by:
Abbas KiarostamiScreenplay:
Abbas KiarostamiCinematography:
Ali Reza ZarrindastVOD (1)
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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 stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. (official distributor synopsis)
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Something similar to what Stanley Kubrick experienced, or at least people who thought they were in contact with Kubrick, was also experienced by an Iranian director. This case then became the subject of this film, a film that is partly fictional, partly documentary, where it is very difficult to distinguish that boundary. An interesting subject, but it didn't captivate me.
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