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(تم النسخ بواسطة TurboScribe.ai. الترقية إلى غير محدود لإزالة هذه الرسالة.) Watching close-up by Kiarostami, have you seen

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that one?

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Yeah, that for me refocused my whole way

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of thinking, watching this film close-up.

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You must see this thing.

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It's on DVD, Kiarostami, Iranian film, that hit

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me as strongly as watching for the first

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time.

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I can't say for the first time because

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I was five years old when I saw

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neorealist films for the first time, but has

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that emotional impact, I feel.

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And so it's, I find myself not watching

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modern films as much as possible.

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Again, older stuff.

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And if I'm looking at more modern films,

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they're usually independent or they're usually Southeast Asian

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or Iranian or that sort of thing.

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I'm thinking of close-up.

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I've been thinking of close-up since I've

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seen it after that festival, you know, which

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by the way, we had a great time

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at.

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Became very good friends.

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I'm thinking of Sabzian, is that how you

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pronounce it?

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Yeah.

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In close-up, when he's speaking before the

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court about why he pretended to be Moshe

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Makhmalbaf.

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Quote, they gave me their attention.

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He's talking about the family now that he

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deceived.

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They gave me their attention and respect, he

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says, of the family.

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Quote, because of my passion for cinema, and

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above all, because they respected me and supported

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me morally, I really got into the part.

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It encouraged me to play the role better

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to where I even felt I was a

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director.

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I really was.

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But when I'd leave and I'd head back

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home, I'd have to shed the character.

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Unquote.

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You know, what he couldn't do in his

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everyday life, the life of a poor guy

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who couldn't even afford to buy his kids

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some treats.

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He could do that in the role of

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Makhmalbaf.

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And that is interact one-on-one with

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the members of the family without being judged

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or condescended to or ignored altogether.

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Through the experience of cinema, creating cinema, even

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without filming the camera, he exists and he

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matters.

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You know, why did he have to play

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the role of a director?

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Well, could have been a businessman, but it's

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not about money.

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It's not about money.

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It's about mutual respect.

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It's about humanity.

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So I'm so moved by this.

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I was so moved by that film.

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That was a complete change in terms of

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seeing the world again.

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I know I'm repeating myself, but it really

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is an extraordinary film.

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The spirit of the artistry, which makes me

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see people in the world in a new,

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refreshing and hopeful way.

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OK, there are camera movements, there's editing, there's

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non-editing angles, style, spectacle.

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And I guess to a certain extent, that's

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all true.

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You know, all these things add to a

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certain love of cinema, right?

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But technique and technical sophistication affects us only

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to the extent that they help work to

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create simple, direct contact between the filmmaker and

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the audience.