Close-Up sits in the top 5% of Other Asia films on this catalog — ranked #29 of 547 by TMDB audience score.
Synopsis
کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک
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.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #29 of 547 Other Asia films indexed here (95th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +1.3 points above the Other Asia average of 6.6/10.
Among Other Asia Crime productions specifically: #3 of 42 (top 7%).
Audience Engagement
299 audience reviews — more than 98% of Other Asia films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 95th percentile among Other Asia films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Close-Up. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Kanoon
Crime + Drama in Other Asia
28 Other Asia titles in our catalog blend the Crime and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Close-Up itself).
The 1989–1991 Other Asia Window
Among 15 Other Asia films we catalog from this window, Close-Up places #2 — near the top of its class.
The 1990s Other Asia Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1990s in Other Asia, 53 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Close-Up premiered alongside 5 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 5 other Other Asia films in 1990.
The 63rd Other Asia title from Other Asia we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1949).
Our Other Asia catalog contains 547 titles in total (522 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Close-Up, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- reenactment · 1
- filmmaker · 1
- dignified · 1
- teheran (tehran) · 13
- movie business · 11
- iran · 33
Production Details
| Primary Country | Other Asia |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Iran |
| Original Language | Persian |
| Spoken Languages | Azerbaijani, Persian |
| Production Companies | Kanoon |
| Runtime | 1h 38m |
| Release Date | May 9, 1990 |
| IMDb | tt0100234 |