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