I watched Abbas Kiarostami's brilliant 1990 film Close-Up the other night. I saw this probably 20 years ago and wasn't in a place to get it I guess. I thought it was kind of boring, as I recall. But I figured it was time to...
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Bilge Ebiri's remembrance of Abbas Kiarostami's work is well worth your time. These movies identify the filmmaker as a student of behavior. But the repetitiveness also.