Please join us tomorrow, Friday, Feb 14 at 1:00-3:00 in Cobb 302 for this week's Iranian movie by Abbas Kiarostami, Close-up (1990).
"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." (https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up)
Looking forward to seeing you!