By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Starring: Agathe Natanson | Gianna Giachertti | Jean-Claude Carrière | Juliette Binoche | William Shimell
Original language title: Copie conforme
Country: belgium, france, italy
Year: 2011
Running time: 106
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020773/
Ibad says: “Celebrated Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami marks a new chapter in his long career with CERTIFIED COPY, making a film outside of his home country for the first time. The naturally sunny Tuscan cinematography keeps the film floating light on its feet as Kiarostami’s trademark ponderous dialogue and themes unfold. English Opera singer William Shimmell and heavily decorated French actress Juliette Binoche play characters that, at first glance, seem to be meeting for the first time but then brilliantly evolve their dynamic into a couple that may or may not have been married for fifteen years. The common insecurities, grievances, and worries of both of their respective married lives slowly unfurl throughout the film. Shimmell’s tonal sensibilities make for a solid film debut, but it’s Binoche, under the baggage of fifteen years of the character’s single motherhood, who steals the show. To me, probably the best (and certainly most accessible) film of Kiarostami’s yet. 4 cats”