Close Up tells of a real life story, and that is the interesting part. The other interesting part is that it features the actual people involved with the story, and it even shows footage of the real events. Then about halfway through the story becomes not so interesting anymore. I haven't seen a story like this though, and haven't even heard of someone pulling something like this off even for a small length of time though.
Summary: Hossain Sabzian enters a family's home claiming that he is director, Mohsen Makmalbaf, and that he has chosen there home to be the setting of his next movie. The family welcomes him into their home loving the idea that their home has been chosen. Until news break that he isn't who he said he was. With real life footage from his trial in the courtroom blended with interviews of the family, and an reenactment of the day he was arrested this movie is thrown together with surreal and documentary style images.
