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The close-up reveals detail and sparks intimacy. It says, “this is important, this is worth your attention right now.”. Creating a close-up is symbolized in the act of picking flowers out of the large heap of leaves, the leavings, the refuse, the garbage: the result of time and its flow across the lives of people.
Close-Up: Directed by Abbas Kiarostami. With Hossain Sabzian, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi. 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.
A close-up shot is a camera shot in which most—if not all—of the frame is filled with an and actor's face or an important feature, detail, or object. The main purpose of a close-up is to ...
Close-Up (Persian: کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک, Klūzāp, nemā-ye nazdīk) is a 1990 Iranian docufiction written, directed and edited by Abbas Kiarostami. The film tells the story of the real-life trial of a man who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf , conning a family into believing they would star in his new film. [ 1 ]
When it comes to drama, a close-up allows a filmmaker to focus on a person’s face to show emotion. The emotions could be anything from nervousness and anxiety to sadness and happiness. We feel the full range of tension and anxiety in Oppenheimer’s Trinity test sequence, which makes use of plenty of close-up shots.
The years following Close-up brought increased renown to both Kiarostami, whose Taste of Cherry (1997) became the first Iranian film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and Makhmalbaf, who made the acclaimed A Moment of Innocence and Gabbeh (both 1996), and who, by 2009, was a Paris-based advocate of Iran’s Green Movement. Internationally, the Iranian cinema’s ascent climaxed with a number ...
Close-up. From the mid-1990s until his death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami was widely regarded as one of the most original, innovative and important filmmakers around, an audacious, idiosyncratic artist with a profoundly humane but highly distinctive view of the world. Close-Up is often seen not only as a turning-point in the Iranian’s career ...
