Michael and Us: I Am Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Abbas Kiarostami's masterpiece CLOSE-UP (1990) used the true story of a poor man who impersonated a famous filmmaker to meditate on class, identity, and the cinematic apparatus. PLUS: the slow erosion of universal healthcare, and checking in on Fox News post-Trump.

Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.