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While reading a novel by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf on the bus, Ali Sabzian strikes up a conversation with a pretty girl, Mahrokh Ahankhah. When she tells him her family admires Makhmalbaf's work, Ali pretends to be the filmmaker to impress her. Becoming friendly with the Ahankhahs, Ali tells them he is preparing a new movie, but when they uncover his true identity, he is arrested for fraud. This film reenacts the true story of the incident, with Ali and the family playing themselves.
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Genre: Drama, Biography
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Original Language: Persian
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Director: Abbas Kiarostami
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Writer: Abbas Kiarostami
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Release Date (Theaters): limited
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Box Office (Gross USA): $2.7K
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Distributor: Celluloid Dreams
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Production Co: The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children & Young Adults
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Blending fiction and reality in ways that make it a unique experience, Kiarostami creates a fascinating piece of fiction-documentary hybrid that reveals always more and more about its characters and Iranian society (including social issues) than we could imagine to be possible.
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Close-up, just wow. An absolutely stunning film. This is a movie that questions fiction and reality. It's not fully a mockumentary, but is the best mockumentary in the scenes that qualify as one. It's a chilling movie, that's not only essential as far as how much of the small stuff it taught me on film, including some Iranian titles, but it makes a great statement about pretending and true identity. I've been left speechless by the movie, usually if I love a film this much I can ramble on about it, but this film speaks for itself. One of the greatest of the 90s, and a gem of middle eastern cinema. This is also the first new movie in 132 watches that I've given over 4 stars.
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kiarostami's masterpiece, radical cinema. i went in not knowing much about it and i recommend that approach. 'i'm tired of being me'
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<i>Nema-ye Nazdik</i> is Kiarostami's highest peak of excellence and vision. Few times have the realms of reality and fiction been mixed so interestingly. The debate surrounding whether it is a documentary or not is irrelevant. First, we must reach a consensus on what is a "documentary" (the filming and representation of reality), and then, to personally stipulate our definition of "reality". This film tells a true story with the real people involved in it, but re-shot for artistic purposes, or basically, what Sabzian was saying on trial: in honor of the art. Kiarostami understood this fully and still, very intelligently, shown an unclear posture towards Sabzian's character while stating his love for films. It is Kieslowski's <i>Amator</i> but reversed, that is, suppose that Filip Mosz could never buy his precious camera... 97/100
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