Opening Day of Close-Up

Opening Day of Close-Up

19967 min5.4 / 10

A warm, affectionate documentary-comedy about a filmmaker's nervous anticipation and love for cinema, set against the backdrop of competing cultural forces in 1990s Rome.

At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Meanwhile Disney's The Lion King is taking Italy by storm.

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