Five weeks of Abbas Kiarostami: Close-Up
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Five weeks of Abbas Kiarostami: Close-Up (1990, Iran)
🗓 Thursday, October 29 | ⏰ Doors: 6PM | 🎬 Film: 8PM | 📍 TicTic, Phnom Penh
We close the month with Kiarostami's strangest, most beloved film. Hossain Sabzian, an unemployed cinephile, is arrested for impersonating the real Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and conning a family into believing he'd cast them in his next film. Kiarostami got permission to film the actual trial - then had everyone involved, including Sabzian and the real Makhmalbaf, re-enact the events leading up to it, playing themselves.
The result sits somewhere between documentary, courtroom drama, and philosophical essay on what it means to want, badly, to be someone else. It's regularly named among the greatest films ever made - 17th in Sight & Sound's 2022 critics' poll.
"The greatest documentary on filmmaking [he's] ever seen."
- Werner Herzog
"A window into the psyche of a complicated man."
- Dennis Lim, Los Angeles Times
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn – Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100234/
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/close-up/
🗓 Thursday, October 29 | ⏰ Doors: 6PM | 🎬 Film: 8PM | 📍 TicTic, Phnom Penh
We close the month with Kiarostami's strangest, most beloved film. Hossain Sabzian, an unemployed cinephile, is arrested for impersonating the real Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and conning a family into believing he'd cast them in his next film. Kiarostami got permission to film the actual trial - then had everyone involved, including Sabzian and the real Makhmalbaf, re-enact the events leading up to it, playing themselves.
The result sits somewhere between documentary, courtroom drama, and philosophical essay on what it means to want, badly, to be someone else. It's regularly named among the greatest films ever made - 17th in Sight & Sound's 2022 critics' poll.
"The greatest documentary on filmmaking [he's] ever seen."
- Werner Herzog
"A window into the psyche of a complicated man."
- Dennis Lim, Los Angeles Times
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn – Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100234/
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/close-up/
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Where is it happening?
TicTic តិចៗ, Langka Lane (Lane behind Patio Hotel), Boeng Keng Kang Ti Muoy, Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 120102, Cambodia
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