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Close up [videorecording] = Nema-ye Nazdik /

كيارستمى، عباس. سبزيان، حسين. مخملباف، محسن. Contributor(s):

Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 62514 | Facets VideoLanguage: Persian Summary language: English Publication details: Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video, [2002]Description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

156580273X

Other title: کلوزاپ Other title:

Close-up
Nema-ye Nazdik
Klūzāp

Uniform titles: نماى نزديک. Uniform titles:

Nimā-yi nazdīk.

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.43/72 21

LOC classification:

PN1997.N46 N46 2002

Cast: Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Ali Sabzian.Summary: A man insinuates himself into the home and lives of a well-to-do Iranian family by pretending to be the famed filmmaker Mohsen Makmalbaf. The man, Hossain Sabzian, has, since childhood, held an obsession with the cinema. When the opportunity presented itself, he assumed a filmmaker's identification and pretended to the Ahankhah family that he as interested in shooting a film with them as the characters. In the end, he is exposed, and a journalist while interviewing the family and the 'artist' is present when the authorities arrive to arrest the imposter. This early Kiarostami film is a complex story about the nature of art and reality. Sabzian, the cinematic imposter is arrested for fraud. Is that more because the family, especially the younger Ahankhan, Mehrdad [an unemployed recent graduate from university] pride is stung because he and his intelligent family have been taken in by this mild-mannered con? Or is there something else at play. Kiariostami has done a clever job of somehow using this simple story as a forum on which to address the theories and practices of making movies in his homeland. It is a work of imagination and some wit but not nearly as fluid as cinema as some of his other works because all the action takes place among the talking heads of the family, the false Makmalbaf and the court-room scenes. Though well staged, the film at times becomes a little inert. Almost as intriguing as this exercise in cinema verite, film philosophy and role-playing, is the look at how courtroom procedures and justice is handled in Iran-where in films have allusions to honor and respect, Tolstoy and cinema been made so vital a part of a trial. With: Mohsen Makmalbaf as himself, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Monoochehr Ahankhah and Mahrokh Ahankhah as themselves. Naher Mohsenit Zonoozi as herself, Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni as a family friend, Hossain Farazmand as the reporter, Hooshang Shamaei as the Taxi Driver, Mohammad Ali Barrati as a solder, Davood Goodarzi as the sergeant, Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi as the Judge, Abbas Kiarostami as himself and Hossain Sabzian, the impostor, as himself. Produced by Ali Reza Zarrin. Cinematography by Ali Reza Zarrindast. Edited by Kiarostami. The DVD also includes a very enlightening brief interview of Kiarostami by film scholar Jamsheed Akrami as part of his documentary on Iranian cinema, Friendly Persuasion.Summary: Ali Sabzian enters a well to do family in Teheran by pretending to be Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf working on his next film.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 0754 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050096678

Originally released as a motion picture in 1990.

DVD special features include: interview with Abbas Kiarostami, filmographies of Kiarostami and Mahmalbaf, chapter selection.

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Close up [videorecording] = Nema-ye Nazdik /