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Certified Copy

Copie conforme (Roonevesht barabar asl ast)

2010

Abbas Kiarostami

Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson ...

6.3

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Romance. Drama Binoche plays a gallery owner living in a Tuscan village who attends a lecture by a British author (opera star William Shimell) on authenticity and fakery in art. Afterward, she invites him on a tour of the countryside, during which he is mistaken for her husband. They keep up the pretense and continue on their afternoon out, discussing love, life and art, and increasingly behaving like a long-married couple. But are they play-acting on ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[Binoche] humanizes the film and lends its theoretical substructure flesh and blood and emotional weight"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'Certified Copy' is the deconstructed portrait of a marriage, acted with well-intentioned fervour by Juliette Binoche, but persistently baffling, contrived, and often simply bizarre (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Abbas Kiarostami is playing with us. That he does it so well is a consolation (...) Kiarostami is rather brilliant in the way he creates off-screen spaces (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Richard Brody The New Yorker	"It’s a mysterious, paradoxical, and deeply ambitious film, which is also something of a lovely manifesto—a tribute to the freedoms that Kiarostami considers essential"
		Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"What a winding, beguiling film Abbas Kiarostami has made (...) A meditative, sometimes funny, often melancholic mystery story (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Keith Phipps AV Club	"A remarkable, unguarded performance [by Binoche] that gives a human face to all the film’s talk of originality and duplication"
		J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"The conclusion is abrupt and unsatisfying, but the philosophical dialogue Kiarostami manages to keep aloft for well over an hour touches on intriguing questions of openness, self-honesty, and personal freedom"
		Kevin Jagernauth IndieWire	"The script is a knockout. The dialogue here sparkles with a raw realism that is breathtaking (...) [Binoche's] finest performance of her career"

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