Close-Up
To me this movie is a direct evolution of Don Quixote by Cervantes. In Don Quixote, Cervantes was telling us that we can change reality, or the truth of reality, by looking at it differently. Later came Borges and in his book "Ficciones" told us that what changes is not the truth of reality, but the truth of US. And In the last scene of Close Up, after Kiarostami spends a lot of time trying to convince us that everything is "real" (even going as far as the sound dropping because of a "faulty mike" but the camera needs to capture this singular "truth" has to go on running), suddenly switches the documentary scene into a staged one, thus almost yelling in our ears "I am lying to you!!!", but we shush him and want to carry on watching, carry on believing, because there is no "truth", everything is close up, everything is always subjective no matter how singular it is, there is always the frame of our mind which is "closing up" on things. Such a beautiful film, definitely one of my top 10