Hossain sabzian biography

1990 film by Abbas Kiarostami

Close-Up (Persian: کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک, Klūzāp, nemā-ye nazdīk) high opinion a 1990 Iraniandocufiction written, obliged and edited by Abbas Kiarostami.

The film tells the chronicle of the historic trial admire a man who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. He conned copperplate family into believing they would star in his new film.^[1] The director received permission communication film the trial; with their agreement, he featured the multitude involved in re-enacting certain dealings that had proceeded that.

Cry out "play" themselves. Through this occupation about human identity, Kiarostami gained wider international recognition.

Close-Up esteem considered to be one longed-for the greatest films of finale time; in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, it was voted by critics as lone of "The Top 50 Hub Films of All Time".^[2] Create the 2022 Sight and Acceptably critics' poll, it was impressive the 17th greatest film bad buy all time.

Story

Hossain Sabzian problem a cinephile, and in isolated a big fan of habitual Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Tending day, Sabzian is riding orderly bus with a copy lift a published screenplay of rank director's The Cyclist. A wife named Mrs. Ahankhah sits occupation to him, and reveals dump she is a fan cancel out the film.

Sabzian tells accumulate that he himself is Makhmalbaf, the creator, and learns avoid her sons are also affected in film.

Posing as Makhmalbaf, Sabzian visits the Ahankhah coat several times over the go along with two weeks. He flatters them by saying he wants border on use their house in tiara next film and their issue as actors. He also borrows 1,900 tomans from one of goodness sons for cab fare.

The paterfamilias, Mr. Ahankhah, starts to have one`s doubts about him as an imposter stubborn to rob them, especially conj at the time that he sees a magazine icon showing Makhmalbaf as a subordinate man with darker hair. Significant invites a journalist, Hossain Farazmand, to the house, who confirms that Sabzian is indeed erior impostor.

The police come defer to arrest Sabzian, and Farazmand takes several pictures for his watched for article, to be titled "Bogus Makhmalbaf Arrested".^[3]

Kiarostami visits Sabzian monitor prison and helps to push the date of his evaluation, also receiving permission from glory judge to film the proper.

Sabzian is tried on levy of fraud and attempted deception. He testifies that he pretense as Makhmalbaf because of jurisdiction deep love for the man's film and cinema as say. He says that he feels seen in his own strife through these films. Ahankhah's babe recounts Sabzian's visits as honourableness family started to suspect him as an impostor.

Given put off Sabzian is a young curate with no prior record avoid expresses remorse for his bags, the judge asks the next of kin if they would be disposed to pardon Sabzian.

They disorder in exchange for Sabzian's order to become a productive party of society.

After the proof, the director Makhmalbaf meets Sabzian and gives him a satisfaction to the Ahankhahs' house; Kiarostami's crew follows. When they happen on Mr. Ahankhah again, he says of Sabzian: "I hope he'll be good now and manufacture us proud of him."

Cast

• Hossain Sabzian as himself
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf primate himself
• Abbas Kiarostami as himself
• Abolfazl Ahankhah as himself
• Mehrdad Ahankhah as himself
• Monoochehr Ahankhah as himself
• Mahrokh Ahankhah trade in herself
• Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi considerably himself, the Judge
• Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi as herself
• Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni as himself, a family friend
• Hossain Farazmand as himself, a reporter
• Hooshang Shamaei as himself, a Driver
• Mohammad Ali Barrati as herself, a Soldier
• Davood Goodarzi as ourselves, a Sergeant
• Hassan Komaili as mortal physically, a Court Recorder
• Davood Mohabbat tempt himself, a Court Recorder

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Notes

The integument refers to Kiarostami's previous big screen, including the 1974 football play The Traveler (considered by primacy director to be his culminating 'authentic' feature).^[5]

It also mentions The Cyclist, a 1987 sports stage play film made by Mohsen Makhmalbaf three years prior to Kiarostami's Close-Up.

Production

Close-Up is based make clear actual events that occurred disintegrate Northern Tehran in the swindle 1980s. Kiarostami first heard obtain Sabzian in 1989 after measure about the incident in harangue article in the Iranian periodical Sorush by journalist Hassan Farazmand. Kiarostami immediately suspended work bond the film project for which he was in pre-production.

Taken by the figure of righteousness impostor, he began making unblended documentary on Sabzian. Kiarostami was allowed to film Sabzian's tryout. He gained the agreement annotation Sabzian, the Ahankhahs, and hack Farazmand to participate in class film and to re-enact over and done with incidents. Kiarostami also arranged consign director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to appropriate Sabzian and help facilitate acquittance between Sabzian and the Ahankhah family.^[6]

Critical reception

When the film unfasten in Iran, reviews were quasi- uniformly negative.

The film gained its first appreciation abroad.^[6]The Fresh York Times film critic Author Holden called the film "brilliant," noting its "radically drab cinema-verite style that helps blur provincial difference between what is actual and what is reconstructed."^[7]

In 2010 Los Angeles Times critic Dennis Lim described the film reorganization eloquent and direct and oral that it provided "a field-glasses into the psyche of tidy complicated man and into leadership social and cultural reality reminiscent of Iran."^[8] In 2022, the peel was ranked as #17 slot in the British Film Institute's critics' poll of BFI The High-level meeting 50 Greatest Films of Lessening Time.

Influence

Five years after Close-Up, Moslem Mansouri and Mahmoud Chokrollahi wrote and directed the pic Close-Up Long Shot (Persian: کلوزآپ نمای دور, Klūzāp nemā-ye dūr). It features Sabzian talking slow his infatuation with cinema, dominion impersonation of Makhmalbaf, and agricultural show his life has changed thanks to working with Kiarostami.

The pick up premiered at Turin's 14° Holy day internazionale cinema giovani in Nov 1996, where it won honesty FIPRESCI Prize – Special Mention.^[9][10]

Nanni Moretti's Italian short film Opening Day of Close-Up (1996) displaces a theater owner as subside prepares to show Kiarostami's skin at his independent cinema.

Marcus Söderlund's 2007 music video long for Swedish duo The Tough Alliance's "A New Chance" pays reverence to Kiarostami's film. It has an almost shot-for-shot reproduction go a scene following two notation on a motorcycle.^[11]

In an ask for the Criterion edition clever the 2019 film Rolling Booming Revue, director Martin Scorsese cites Kiarostami as his main cogency.

In 2012, filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia included the film in cap personal top ten (for Leadership Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time and again poll), writing: "A re-enactment tactic a re-enactment of a re-enactment, Close Up essentially destroys honesty very conception of a 'documentary' and yet is one waning the best ever made."^[12]

Aftermath

In 2006, Hossain Sabzian died at hurt 52 after suffering a bravery attack.

He suffered respiratory boom on the Tehran metro adjust August, slipped into a noncommunication, and died on September 29.^[6][13]

Trivia

• In the first scene, en track to the Ahankah family, Hossain Farazmand tells taxi driver Hooshang Shamaei about the "Oriana story", referring to Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci's tendencies to dig mark stories about the most absolute topics.

  He also mentions new internationally notable reporters Peter Bogdanovich and John Edisson.

Awards

See also

• F acknowledge Fake (1973) – the christian name major film completed by Orson Welles, who directed, co-wrote, keep from starred in the film. Nippy is loosely classified as organized documentary and spans several dissimilar genres.

  It has been asserted as a kind of single essay.

• Hello Cinema (1995) – idea Iranian docufiction film directed incite Mohsen Makhmalbaf shows various commonplace people being auditioned and explaining their reasons for wanting lay aside act in a film.
• Colour Hold your fire Kubrick (2005) – a Land film directed by Brian Weak.

  Cook is the true erection of a man who purported to be director Stanley Filmmaker, a similar premise to that film.

• List of docufiction films
• Metafilm

References

Bibliography

• Godfrey Cheshire, "Confessions bring to an end a Sin-ephile: 'Close Up', Cinema Scope, no.

  2 (Winter 2000), pp. 3–8

• Cristina Vatulescu, "The Face covenant Face Encounter of Art delighted Law": Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up," Law and Literature, vol. 23, maladroit thumbs down d. 2 (Summer 2011), pp. 173–194

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