Close up 1990

Tehran 🌸🇮🇷 (A still from Abbas Kiarostami's 'Close Up') #tehran #iran #iranian #persia #persian #kiarostami (at Tehran, Iran)

April showers have brought May flowers. To celebrate, we’ve collected a bouquet of images from movies in our collection. Above: Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees, available from Criterion on Hulu Plus.

I feel reborn

Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. 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…