Rent Certified Copy (2009)
3.0 of 5 from 231 ratings
1h 34min
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- Synopsis:
- He (William Shimell) is a British author in town to talk about his new book. She (Juliette Binoche) is a French gallery owner in search of originality. Together they tour the local galleries, cafes and museums and discover that nothing is quite what it seems and truth, like art, is always open to interpretation. Captivating and hugely entertaining, this acclaimed romantic tale playfully and provocatively blurs the lines between reality and imagination.
- Actors:
- Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson, Gianna Giachetti, Adrian Moore, Angelo Barbagallo, Andrea Laurenzi, Filippo Trojano, Manuela Balsinelli
- Directors:
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Producers:
- Angelo Barbagallo, Charles Gillibert, Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz, Abbas Kiarostami
- Writers:
- Caroline Eliacheff, Abbas Kiarostami
- Aka:
- Copie Conforme
- Studio:
- Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- Acting Up: Top 10 Performances At Cannes, Top Films
- Countries:
- France
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 17/01/2011
- Run Time:
- 94 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, French DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- The making of Certified Copy
- Theatrical trailer
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Reviews (4) of Certified Copy
Love Story, Puzzle Grin - Certified Copy review by griggs
It starts like a meet-cute with good manners, then quietly reveals it’s wearing a love story’s coat and a puzzle’s grin. Abbas Kiarostami gives you just enough behavioural “tells” — the phone call, the ease of a shared history, the little barbs that land too accurately — to make any theory feel solid. Then he moves the goalposts.
Juliette Binoche is the anchor: enigmatic, wounded, funny, and never reducible to a single reading. The film’s great trick is that it doesn’t play like a riddle at first; halfway through you realise you’ve been solving one, and it’s still easy to be with.
The originals-and-copies idea isn’t academic here — it’s emotional. A relationship can be real, then become a performance of itself, then snap back into something true for a few minutes if both people choose it. Certified Copy doesn’t answer you. It invites you to engage anyway — and it really does reward the return visit.
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Awful - Certified Copy review by LH
I think the Guardian gave this like one star. I usually check the Guardian reviews before watching any film. This was just a rubbish, not entertaining and stupid film.
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intriguing - Certified Copy review by DF
An intriguing enjoyable movie with Juliette Binoche, as usual, brilliant. Shimell plays a good part (however, the character's day job as an author doesn't really hold water). Beyond the main 'mysterious' relationship, there is quite a fascinating relationship between Binoche's character and her son. The Tuscan town, as backdrop, frames the whole movie beautifully,
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Critic review
Certified Copy (aka Copie Conforme) review by Siva Kumar - Cinema Paradiso
‘Certified Copy’ is a film by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, who is well known for some of his past works. The film, which is set in Tuscany, narrates the romantic transformation between the lead actors. The film stars Juliette Binoche and William Shimell in the lead roles.
A female gallery shop owner attends the lecture given by famous French author James Miller along with her son. James Miller defends imitation art by claiming that every artwork is original in its own sense. The gallery owner invites miller to visit the countryside along with her. During their travel, he is mistaken as her husband by a woman in a café. Their relationship is left as a puzzle.
The film mainly portrays the relationship between the lead characters in perception as well as reality. The conversation that happens between Miller and the gallery owner during their visit to the countryside is quite interesting. The way the story moves is quite interesting. This is certainly not a clichéd man meets woman, falls in love, kind of drama. It is very intense due to the fact that the relationship between them is left to our own assumption.
The narration is brilliant throughout the movie and it never lags in any scene. The brilliancy of the filmmaker alone is not enough to make such a beautiful movie. The performance by the lead actors is truly amazing. The acting is done in a controlled way without any over performance. This is one of the best movies in the recent times that deal with male-female relationship.