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Certified Copy

Original title: Copie conforme
  • 20102010
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  • 1h 46m
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7.2/10
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Juliette Binoche in Certified Copy (2010)
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. Mistaken as husband and wife, the duo keep up the pretense, spending an afternoon behaving like a long-married couple.
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In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.
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    • Abbas Kiarostami
    • Abbas Kiarostami
    • Caroline Eliacheff(collaborating writer)
  • Stars
    • Juliette Binoche
    • William Shimell
    • Jean-Claude Carrière
    • Abbas Kiarostami
    • Abbas Kiarostami
    • Caroline Eliacheff(collaborating writer)
  • Stars
    • Juliette Binoche
    • William Shimell
    • Jean-Claude Carrière
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    • 266Critic reviews
    • 82Metascore
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    Filippo Trojano
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    Manuela Balsimelli
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    • Trivia
      During a visit in Tehran by Juliette Binoche, Abbas Kiarostami told Binoche the synopsis of Certified Copy as a casual anecdote, which she said that she fully believed until he confessed to having made it up. According to Kiarostami, studying the reactions of Binoche as she listened to the story was a vital part of the film's further development.
    • Quotes

      James Miller: It seems to me that the human race is the only species who have forgotten the whole purpose of life, the whole meaning of existence is to have fun, to have pleasure. And here is someone who's found their own way to do it. We shouldn't judge them for it. If they're happy and enjoying life, we should congratulate them, not criticize them.

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    7/10
    My 379th Review: Neither loved it or hated it: more intrigued
    All reviewers so far have either opted for 8 or 2. That is a sure sign that something is going on, I am willing to risk flack from all sides and say that Cerified Copy is was it is: a look at how we layer our relationships, an hour and forty minutes of conversations, broken with moments of silence and walking, and about two people who may or may not be in a some sort of relationship or connection.

    It has originality - it will not be like other films seen recently in mainstream European cinema, there is little or no plot, or action, rather we dealing with conversation, and the state of the heart and the mind in a fiercely non-Hollywood fashion. This is a film about thinking about emotions, and is almost non-linear in its conversations and if that concept doesn't appeal then it may well not be viewable.

    It is, however, despite itself, pretty mesmerizing - what will they say next? what other aspect of why relationships fail and succeed will be tossed into the salad? who are they? why the games? etc;

    The conversations are both alienating and intimate, and have a "play-acting" aspect that allows the psychosexual aspect of how we adults explore potentiality to be examined in a way that is normally reduced to sexual tension and flirting on film. This is a film that demands attention - this is not dumb film-making. I recognize the conversations and the feeling well, but in a sense the connection is too contrived to be really successful - but it certainly touches that part of intimacy that is normally, at best, ethereal.

    The setting of Chianti and a beautiful hot summer day, with cicadas and a wonderful small town to explore, lightens this - but it remains a film for philosopher romantics. It is, as others here have noted in better ways than me, film as film - here there are images and shots that work to compliment the alienation and solipsistic nature of the two leads.

    A film about questions that offers few answers, it is certainly intriguing and if you are into human exploration and condition worth the effort to watch.
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      • March 25, 2011 (United States)
      • France
      • Italy
      • Belgium
      • Iran
    • Official sites
      • Juliette Binoche: The Art of Being - Official Fansite
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      • French
      • English
      • Italian
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      • Lucignano, Italy
    • Production companies
      • MK2 Productions
      • BiBi Film
      • France 3 Cinéma
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    • 1 hour 46 minutes
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