A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
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Character
Prestige, contemporary, contemplative and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
Who loves it, who doesn't
1 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters.
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Answer first; then see how everyone, and your circle, split.
“Is this Abbas Kiarostami's best work?”
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“Is the ambiguity a cop-out?”
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“Is it the best crime film of its decade?”
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Cast
- Hossain SabzianSelf
- Monoochehr AhankhahSelf
- Mahrokh AhankhahSelf
- Abolfazl AhankhahSelf
- Mehrdad AhankhahSelf
- Nayer Mohseni ZonooziSelf
- Hossain FarazmandReporter
- Ahmad Reza Moayed MohseniFamily Friend
- Hooshang ShamaeiTaxi Driver
- Mohammad Ali BarratiSoldier
Crew
- Abbas KiarostamiDirector
- Abbas KiarostamiWriter
- Ali Reza ZarrindastDirector of Photography
- Abbas KiarostamiEditor
- Hassan AghakarimiProducer
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Pairings
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
20,000 Days on Earth 201481% alikeBoth prestige, contemporary, contemplative.
Nomadland 202175% alikeBoth contemplative, prestige, contemporary.
Life, and Nothing More… 199273% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative, contemporary.
Boyhood 201473% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative, earnest.
Under the Skin 201472% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative, contemporary.
Father Mother Sister Brother 202572% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative, contemporary.
Waking Life 200171% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative, contemporary.
Cameraperson 201671% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative, contemporary.
Finders, Keepers72% alikeGame · Both contemplative, prestige, contemporary.
Dujanah 201769% alikeGame · Both prestige, contemplative, contemporary.
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Recommendations from TMDB. Opening one adds it to Curator Co.
