About Kiarostami

The translucent nature of fact-as-fiction, thus, becomes the sheer lens through which Kiarostami begins to show us ways of seeing we never knew existed. He has shown traces of this fascination with the nature of reality. As early as 1955, Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon made a huge statement on perspectives and the distortion of truth in the face of human fallacies. But, Close-Up is the first consistent instance of this distinctive view of cinema and the whole process of filmmaking as a whole.