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CLOSE-UP Commentary

Close-up • 1h 37m

Recorded in 2009, this commentary features Iranian filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and American film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, coauthors of the book “Abbas Kiarostami.”

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