Baltic Cinema: Close-up

Baltic Cinema: Close-up

Wed 2 July | 18:30

£6 Full price / £4 Students, under 18s, unwaged and 65+

Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up, is a dizzying, electrifying film about one man’s love for films and filmmaking which calls into question truth, authenticity — and who tells stories for and to whom. Close-up is rarely screened yet regularly sits near the top of the polls as one of the greatest films ever made. Join us for this first screening and find out what else is coming up as part of Baltic Cinema.

Doors open 18:30; Film starts 18:45. Baltic Kitchen is open until 18:30 for drinks, which you are welcome to take up to the cinema.

"Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work.

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."

— Janus Films

"I was so moved by the film. It was a complete change, in terms of seeing the world again … an extraordinary film" —Martin Scorsese