kiarostami’s “close-up” is ingenious. the story unfolds as seen thru the eyes of diff characters and the audience is allowed to piece together their own understanding of what happened based on info gleaned from diff perspectives/locations/times. that’s not how films r usually structured. throughout the movie, there is this tug and pull b/w truth or lie, real or unreal, culprit or victim. v reminiscent of life.