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Close-Up
Why this pick
Its porous boundary between reenactment and lived reality echoes Makhmalbaf’s self-reflexive reconstruction, with an equally humane interest in memory, cinema, and ordinary people.
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MOVIE1996 1h 18m IRN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film is a semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a seventeen-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally and was jailed.
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