Close Up

Duration: 500 min
Release date: 2012-09-30
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More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.

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Close Up

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Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni
as Self (archive footage)
Asia Argento
Asia Argento
as Self (archive footage)
Dario Argento
Dario Argento
as Self (archive footage)
Roberto Benigni
Roberto Benigni
as Self (archive footage)
Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey
as Self (archive footage)
Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
as Self (archive footage)
Sean Connery
Sean Connery
as Self (archive footage)
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner
as Self (archive footage)
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
as Self (archive footage)
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve
as Self (archive footage)
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro
as Self (archive footage)
Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp
as Self (archive footage)
Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas
as Self (archive footage)
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford
as Self (archive footage)
Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman
as Self (archive footage)
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
as Self (archive footage)
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
as Self (archive footage)
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
as Self (archive footage)
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman
as Self (archive footage)
William Hurt
William Hurt
as Self (archive footage)
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson
as Self (archive footage)
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman
as Self (archive footage)
Kevin Kline
Kevin Kline
as Self (archive footage)
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
as Self (archive footage)
George Lucas
George Lucas
as Self (archive footage)
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Mastroianni
as Self (archive footage)
Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson
as Self (archive footage)
Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck
as Self (archive footage)
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt
as Self (archive footage)
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski
as Self (archive footage)
Vasco Rossi
Vasco Rossi
as Self (archive footage)
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi
as Self (archive footage)
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
as Self (archive footage)
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
as Self (archive footage)
John Travolta
John Travolta
as Self (archive footage)
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Trintignant
as Self (archive footage)
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
as Self (archive footage)
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis
as Self (archive footage)
Neil Young
Neil Young
as Self (archive footage)
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