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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Close-Up, it lets real experience and staged reenactment continually illuminate each other, with a humane, playful attention to performance, memory, and the people caught inside a film.
02
Why this pick
Its audition-room setup turns ordinary moviegoers into vivid participants, sharing Close-Up’s fascination with cinephilia, aspiration, and the delicate line between acting for a camera and revealing oneself.
03
Why this pick
A deceptively simple child’s journey gradually foregrounds the filmmaking process, echoing Close-Up’s calm, destabilizing movement between constructed cinema and unguarded reality.
04
Why this pick
Kiarostami again uses a searching, nested film form to approach real lives after an earthquake; its gentle curiosity and porous boundary between document and fiction closely suit Close-Up.
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Why this pick
This tender film-within-a-film deepens Close-Up’s interest in amateur performers and unequal desires, observing a real-feeling romantic pursuit with Kiarostami’s patient, lightly comic precision.
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01 / THE STORY
The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
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