Arrow brings three of director Makhmalbaf’s films to vivid life with The Poetic Trilogy.
Kiarostami’s rapturous chimera of a film finally gets its deserved due on DVD and Blu-ray.
Can any slight, relatively little-seen film live up to the kind of reputation that increasingly surrounds Close-Up?
The film is simultaneously more complex and less labyrinthine than it sounds.
The Chinese-puzzle-box structure of the film matches the heft of Makhmalbaf’s collective memory.
Those interested in learning about the delightful home of Osama bin Laden would be well served checking out Kandahar.
Kiarostami’s close-up, in the end, should not be taken merely as a recording of history.
Close-Up, one of the top five films of the 1990s, is also a great compliment to Makhmalbaf’s similarly themed A Moment of Innocence.
The film is an absurd, sometimes heavy-handed, but never less than evocative ode to the perpetually disguised Afghan woman.