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40
Educational Value/50
34
Craft & Quality/50
44
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The TVI Take
A man who impersonated a famous Iranian filmmaker is tried in court. Kiarostami's hybrid documentary-fiction is among cinema's most formally radical works.
The blurring of documentary and fiction mirrors the subject's own identity confusion. Educational about Iranian cinema and the psychology of imposture.
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