Close-Up
Taste attributes: crimedocumentarydramabiographyslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticintricatelineargrittyenclosedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipfighting evilsocial commentary
Boxlist takeA grounded, weighty documentary: slow-burning and original. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
Pace: very slow · Originality: very fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: very heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: intricate · Structure: very linear · Look: very gritty · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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What lines up
- Wholesomeness: Unsavoury, just how this profile likes it
- Intricacy: Smart / intricate, just how this profile likes it
- Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Realism: True to life, where this profile leans balanced realism
- Style & visuals: Gritty, where this profile leans balanced style & visuals
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Synopsis
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.
Synopsis: TMDB
Taste Attributes
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Details
- Genre
- Crime
- Year
- 1990
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Kanoon
- Taste scores
- How we score
Similar in feel
Matched on pace, tone, themes and style, not just genre.
