Tara Aghdashloo
Iranian writer and director
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Jul 9, 2026
069 - Close-Up (ft. Tara Aghdashloo)
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Tara AghdashlooGUEST
I mean, you know, I think we all end up falling in love with them, but it's pretty messed up what he does.

Tara AghdashlooGUEST
Like, it is kind of diabolical that he goes on multiple trips to this household.

Tara AghdashlooGUEST
And when you realize that in his head he was acting, it really kind of, it just was such a... beautiful revelation and this big question, because there's a lot of questions, as you said, about what's real, what's not.

Tara AghdashlooGUEST
But one of the central questions for me was this idea of power and this idea of who is the filmmaker, who is the actor, because everyone is, again, acting in this film, even Kiarostami himself.

Tara AghdashlooGUEST
He is playing the role of Kiarostami because a lot of the directions that he gives is actually clearly put in in post, like it's actually voiceover.
47 MINS LATER

Faran MoradiHOST
But he says that the, the one key through line that he has found in understanding what is considered a hybrid film and what is just a documentary with fiction elements or fiction with documentary elements is when the filmmaker is deliberately sliding across the spectrum of reality and fiction, which I thought was a very fascinating way of defining a loose genre.