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.
CrimeDramamovie businessteheran (tehran), iranreenactmentfilmmakerunderstateddignified
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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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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.
Boyhood 201473% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative, earnest.
Waking Life 200171% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative, contemporary.
Cameraperson 201671% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative, contemporary.
sex, lies, and videotape 198966% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative, contemporary.
Ondine 201065% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative, grave.
Her 201363% alikeBoth contemporary, contemplative, prestige.
Lost in Translation 200362% alikeBoth contemplative, contemporary, prestige.
Both contemporary, meticulous.- Blonde 201666% alikeAlbum · Both contemporary, grave, prestige.
- Kid A 200060% alikeAlbum · Both contemporary, prestige, grave.
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Recommendations from TMDB. Opening one adds it to Curator Co.
