@deanduncan63Saw Abbas Kiarostami’s #CloseUp. It’s an Iranian King of Comedy, isn’t it? W’ bits of Blow Up & Jeanne Dielman thrown in! …
… Morbid, even terrifying celebrity obsession, correspondingly close, even compulsive detailing of their investigation …
… and an approach to duration that will either make you scream, or outright blow your mind.
#CloseUp. Really unguarded & simple & straightforward; completely & even perversely messes w’ our minds. AK: guileless/genius/brat.
#CloseUp. Boring? Only if you are! I’d say rather that it replicates the long agonies of sin & sorrow …
… then enacts the sweet fruits of repentance & forgiveness. Travail, & the blessings that follow.
#CloseUp. The nerve of this guy, who gets the court date moved up because it fits his filmmaker’s schedule …
… As for this remarkable courtroom footage (or is it?!), justice in the Islamic Republic (ca. 1990 anyway) appears to be beautifully tempered by mercy …
… at least when that nervy guy behind the camera is there!
#CloseUp. Axis of evil? Careful. A deeply, even comprehensively devoted population, more like. The offended mother …
… asks the policemen to let the perpetrator finish the meal she has made for him before they take him away …
… In the end the offended, now forgiving father, simply says: “We know he’ll make us proud of him.”
#CloseUp, supplement: http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1492-close-up-prison-and-escape