That One Inch Barrier - Episode #9 - Close Up [Iran, 1990]

2023-10-04

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles! Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as the recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema. On this episode, the lads head to Iran to discuss acclaimed filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's 1990 docu-fiction drama, Close-Up, which blurs the line between reality and fiction by recreating and documenting a real criminal trial in Iran. If you enjoy the epi...

There’s a whole world of cinema to be discovered, you just have to overcome that one inch barrier known as subtitles!

Join film critics Nick L’Barrow, Josh Barry and Kieran Griffiths as the recommend and review some of their favourites from international cinema.

On this episode, the lads head to Iran to discuss acclaimed filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's 1990 docu-fiction drama, Close-Up, which blurs the line between reality and fiction by recreating and documenting a real criminal trial in Iran.

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