"Relic"
I understand that this would have been consistent with the language used by that generation, due to its role in the medical profession, however as someone who has family members with Down Syndrome I took it very personally.
Close-Up (1999)
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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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.
Rating:NR
Genre:Crime, Drama
Written By:Abbas Kiarostami
In Theaters:12/31/1999
Box Office:
Runtime:98 minutes
Studio:Kanoon
Cast
Abbas Kiarostami
Director
Hossain Sabzian
Hossain Sabzian
Monoochehr Ahankhah
Monoochehr Ahankhah
Mahrokh Ahankhah
Mahrokh Ahankhah
Abolfazl Ahankhah
Abolfazl Ahankhah
Mehrdad Ahankhah
Mehrdad Ahankhah
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
Hossain Farazmand
Reporter
Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni
Family Friend
Hooshang Shamaei
Taxi Driver
Mohammad Ali Barrati
Soldier
Davood Goodarzi
Sergeant
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