Belluscone: A Sicilian Story plays like a mockumentary about contemporary Sicilian society.
“Close-Up” begins with a tender portrait of romantic devotion that the episode slowly, cunningly upends.
Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2010: Abbas Kiarostami’s Rain, Roads of Kiarostami, & Sea Eggs
by Aaron Cutler
For Abbas Kiarostami, anything that can be filmed is cinema, and even anything that can be photographed.
A film like Certified Copy explodes truisms about acting.
Can any slight, relatively little-seen film live up to the kind of reputation that increasingly surrounds Close-Up?
Abbas Kiarostami is exhausted, and understandably so.