There's an enchanting, and very Western, musicality in Certified Copy, a mash-up that charms; Mad Decent - master masher, dj and producer Diplo's label - aptly describes it. (Diplo and Buñuel would've loved each other).
Certified Copy(Copie conforme)
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France, Italy, Belgium · 2010
1h 46m
Director Abbas Kiarostami
Starring Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson
Genre Drama, Romance
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In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. His book is about the value of copy versus the original work of art, and, as they debate his theories, their relationship grows more complicated.
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Her (Binoche) award-winning performance is reason alone to dive into such intellectual gamesmanship. (She can suggest an entire emotional arc with one facial tic.)
A comedy of remarriage buried in intellectual abstraction and cinephilic obsessions, Certified Copy wanders a bit but never loses focus, with the only certainty being that its gimmick is genuine.
Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy is exactly that: The Iranian modernist's first feature to be shot in the West is a flawless riff on our indigenous art cinema.
Though it's dominated by two people walking and talking, after a point it's as difficult to parse what's real and what's constructed in Certified Copy as it is in the home stretch of "Inception" (although "Before Sunset" and Roberto Rossellini's "Journey To Italy" provide closer models).
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
The end will haunt you.
Boxoffice Magazine by Richard Mowe
The romantic fable of love, marriage, art and second chances may not add up to all that much but the journey is exquisite.
More compelling as an intellectual exercise than an emotional one, Certified Copy finds deep-thinking writer-director Abbas Kiarostami asserting there's nothing new under the Tuscan sun, particularly not his own conventional romantic drama set in rural Italy.
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