Poetic License

The fictions and realities of Abbas Kiarostami's boundary-breaking Close-Up
by Joshua Land   posted Mar 24, 2010

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KEYWORDS

Abbas Kiarostami  |  Close-Up  |  realism  |  poetry  |  Iranian cinema  |  documentary  |  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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Joshua Land is a freelance writer and a founding co-editor of the online literary journal Essays & Fictions. He is currently studying applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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