Close-Up

1990 · 98 MIN · IMDB 8.2 · 24,668 VOTES · DIR. Abbas Kiarostami

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,132 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:32 - Did you say it might take a while? - It's OK.
00:03:33 Give your boss a call when we get there.
00:06:57 He might see you from the window.
00:13:47 - Yes? - Excuse me, I'm Mr Farazmand.
00:17:37 You seem to know a lot about it. His house is...
00:20:49 - Do you know me? - Yes.
00:24:49 We'd like the date of the trial to be brought forward.
00:28:32 OK.
00:32:44 - Just once? - Yes.
00:36:14 Mr Hossein Sabzian, you are accused of fraud
00:39:38 his admirers and his film crew...
00:43:07 They did everything I told them.
00:46:41 He insisted we all go see the film The Cyclist.
00:49:52 to mingle with ordinary folk.
00:53:13 which convinced him that he wasn't Makhmalbaf.
00:57:19 You look like one though.
01:00:58 But I sense that their interest is fading.
01:08:22 But I've read books on the subject.
01:11:46 Since you're single now, you could've...
01:15:12 I sensed that they had bought this film magazine
01:18:28 Why didn't you try to get bail for him?
01:22:08 You are playing your own part.
01:25:14 It's 15 years old.
01:33:28 Subtitles edited by Yasmeen Khan

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,132
Dialogue density11.6 lines / min
First line00:00:32
Final line01:33:28

Production Record

DirectorAbbas Kiarostami
LanguagePersian
IMDb votes24,668