In this film, a reporter kicks a green fuel can down a street after finally finding a tape recorder. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 1990 film, which depicts the fraud trial of a man who impersonated Mohsen Makhmalbaf (“MAKH-mall-boff”). Near the end of this film, two men ride on a motorcycle after buying pink flowers.
ANSWER: Close-Up
[10e] Close-Up is set in this country, the home of its director Abbas Kiarostami. This country is also the setting of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.
ANSWER: Iran [or Islamic Republic of Iran or Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran]
[10h] For a film titled for this location, Kiarostami carved a zigzag path into a hill with a lone olive tree at the top. In the first film in the Koker Trilogy, Ahmad searches for this location to give back a notebook.
ANSWER: the friend’s house [accept descriptions like the home of the friend; accept the house of Mohammad Reza or the house of Nematzadeh; accept Where Is the Friend’s House?]
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