Academy awardwinner juliette binoche gives one of the finest performances of her career for which she won the best actress award at cannes in certified copy, the first european film from abbas kiarostami taste of cherry. Academy award winner juliette binoche gives one of the finest performances of her career for which she won the best actress award at cannes in certified copy, the first european film from abbas kiarostami taste of cherry. Certified copy is certainly not false or pretentious art and kiarostamis rare and formerly thoughttobelost 2nd film the report, made in 1976 during the last years of the shahs iran, also included on the criterion bluray, is even less so. Certified copy, or mirroring life, mirroring art by donato totaro volume 18, issue 9 september 2014 14 minutes 3256 words iranian cinema is strongly identified for its nuanced and in some cases highly innovative style of reflexivity that casts a long shadow over clear demarcations between art and reality, fiction and documentary, realism and stylization. Watch on ifc films unlimited with prime video channels. Find out where certified copy is streaming, if certified copy is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper. Some movies are stupidsimple, with a minor twist like any of the marvel movies. With juliette binoche, william shimell, jeanclaude carriere, agathe natanson. A bbas kiarostamis new movie has an italian setting. Such a fate remains even more openended in certified copy, but remains a. Whats the story a gallery owner living in a tuscan village attends a lecture by a british author on authenticity and fakery in art. Now, shyamalan has a new film about to hit theaters, and fans are ready for the promised thirdact shocker. Sep 02, 2010 certified copys big idea is clear enough.
Afterwards she invites him on a tour of the countryside during which he is mistaken for her husband. Heres the evolution of my thoughts after watching certified copy. It has been my experience that there is no such thing as a bad abbas kiarostami movie. Actually, it was john wayne that shot liberty valance the man who shot liberty valance 1962 making a good argument for being john fords greatest film, the man who shot liberty valance is a thoughtful, elegiac look at the creation of america, and the role of mythmaking in its birth, regardless of whether the myths were true as carleton youngs newspaper editor. It stars juliette binoche, william shimell and jeanclaude carriere. But there are plot twists that will pingpong around your mind for. Sep 04, 2010 the thoughtful, mysterious, extremely chic certified copy is, on the face of it, a characteristically continental art house production, its central characters having the fashionable occupations. An iranian man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he. A gallery owner living in a tuscan village attends a lecture by a british author on authenticity and fakery in art. It does not certify that the primary document is genuine, only that it is a true copy of the primary document.
Doubtless kiarostami could still work in his native land if he was determined to, but since conditions for filmmakers there have grown more difficult in. A marvelous, mindblowing movie iranian director abbas kiarostamis certified copy appears to tell a simple story two people, played by juliette binoche and william shimell. While the pastor gave a metaphor about sheep and shepherds, i. After the movie ended, my mom called all the kids down for sunday mass. Abbas kiarostami takes conventions of arthouse cinema and shoves those norms right in front of a fullbody mirror, forcing genre and normality to confront their own limitations and customs. That discussion is there, through the movie, but dissolved in a captivating first date which turns into a failed marriage. Yes, we can consider various explanations for what we see, and yes, the. Two people who, by all appearances, barely know each other decide to spend the day together in certified copy. Certified copy is a 2010 art film by iranian writer and director abbas kiarostami, starring juliette binoche and the british opera singer. What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two peopleplayed by oscarwinning actress juliette binoche and opera singer william shimellgetting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer. Certifying a document when you apply for something like a bank account or mortgage, you may be asked to provide documents that are certified as true copies of the original. Released march 11th, 2011, certified copy stars juliette binoche, william shimell, jeanclaude carriere, agathe natanson the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 46 min, and received a score of 82.
Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Scotts deep space horror and vision of the future helped to shape a new age of sciencefiction, but the plot of the movie may not have been so original. Mar 18, 2011 certified copy operates almost in reverse of most thematically inclined works of art, which plunge us into a falsely desultory universe and gradually reveal their master interpretive passkey. For me, it is too clever by half, creating fullbodied characters but inserting them into a story that is thin soup. Iranian director abbas kiarostamis certified copy appears to tell a simple. The basic plot a man and a woman traveling and talking is.
The movie gets its title from that of the essayists book, an arthistorical study in praise of the aesthetic value of the copy as equal to that of. In tuscany to promote his latest book, a middleaged british writer meets a french woman who leads him to the village of lucignano. May 23, 2012 certified copy 2010, kiarostamis tuscan excursion, is a nonpolitical film only if you find no political meaning in its loudest unspoken implication. Certified copy copie conforme pictures and movie photo gallery check out just released certified copy copie conforme pics, images, clips, trailers, production photos and more from rotten. Certified copy is a film written and directed by abbas kiarostami. One william shimell is a wellknown english essayist touring tuscany behind the italian translation of his latest book, a provocative culturalstudies piece about originality and reproduction whose subtitle sums up its argument. This plot point seemed familiar to me, but when i tried to recall which film i might. Jun 16, 2011 the movieclips channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. The two true realities that explain the movie certified copy. Split, which arrives in theaters on january 20, stars james mcavoy as a man with. The great iranian director abbas kiarostami travels to tuscany for a luminous and provocative romance in which nothing is as it appears.
Could you systematically change every aspect of a work to copy it, without actually copying any of its elements. A rock is hurtling towards the earth, we need to save the earth from certain doom. Certified copy is a 2010 french drama film by iranian writer and director abbas kiarostami. Binoche is brilliant in this movie, deservedly winning the best actress award at cannes. Certified copy is a slighter but more ingratiating film and a chance to see a. Everything you need to know about certified copy movie 2011. Director ridley scott immortalized his film career with 1979s alien, following the crew of a spaceship slowly picked off by a murderous alien stowaway.
Certified copy 2011 while touring tuscany, italy, promoting his new book, english author james william shimell meets french store owner elle juliette binoche, and the two hit it off. A certified copy is often used in englishspeaking common law countries as a convenient way of providing a copy of documents. This rule, which considers a certified copy to be secondary evidence unless circumstances of loss or destruction warrant its treatment as primary evidence, is known as the best evidence rule. The 20 best plot twists of the 21st century, ranked indiewire. A certified copy is admissible as evidence in a lawsuit when the original document cannot be produced because it has been lost or destroyed. Certified copy, or mirroring life, mirroring art offscreen.
Take a look at what 100 movies made the bbcs best of the 21st century list. The theme of a reproduction being of equal value to the original is explored throughout every element. Certified copy defies any attempt to be viewed passively as its meaning and power is dependant on an active viewer being aware of how the film constructs itself. Played by ingrid bergman and a neverbetter george sanders, these voyagers were mocked by the simple emotions captured forever in the ancient artifacts they saw. British writer james miller shimell is in tuscany to give a talk to a group about his new book, titled certified copy, which argues that, in art, issues of authenticity are irrelevant because every reproduction is itself an original, and even the original is a copy of another form. Kiarostamis film presents a concept, fully formed and cogent, and allows the rest of the film to set to work on that concept, breaking it into.
Sep 09, 2014 certified copy, or mirroring life, mirroring art by donato totaro volume 18, issue 9 september 2014 14 minutes 3256 words iranian cinema is strongly identified for its nuanced and in some cases highly innovative style of reflexivity that casts a long shadow over clear demarcations between art and reality, fiction and documentary. In tuscany to promote his latest book, a middleaged english writer meets a french woman who leads him to the village of lucignano. Certified copy invites us into an intriguing story and then strands us. Certified copy working for the first time outside his homeland, the acclaimed iranian director abbas kiarostami finds his true intentions somewhat lost in translation with certified copy. Certified copy 2011 stream and watch online moviefone. There are two narrative poles in the scheme of certified copy the unmarried story, and the married story, but then there are chunks of dialogue that also seem isolated in their own narrative universe, and then lines within the dialogue that, again, seem disembodied from any overarching plot. Juliette binoche as she william shimell as james miller jeanclaude carriere as the man at the square agathe natanson as the woman at the square gianna giachetti as the cafe owner adrian moore as the son angelo barbagallo as the translator andrea laurenzi as the guide filippo troiano as the groom. The 20 best plot twists of the 21st century, ranked. The story is set in tuscany and focuses on a french art gallery owner, played by juliette binoche, who together with a man she just met pretends to be a longmarried couple. Popular movies that stole their plots from other films. Or are the main characters playing the roles of every husband and wife in the world, acting and reacting like any couple in a given situation.
Certified copy copie conforme 2011 rotten tomatoes. I enjoy puzzles like antonionis blow up or lavventura, with characters who dont. Though certified copy sets itself up for any number of possible interpretations, given the selfconsciously reflective nature of both its plot and imagery, it seems reasonable to infer that the. Plot points, or beats in tvspeak, are among the creative elements that can be infringed, so its not true that plots arent part of a whats protected in a works.
Juliette binoche won the best actress prize in cannes for her performance in this playful and provocative romantic drama. Certified copy copie conforme pictures rotten tomatoes. If cinema is considered a reflection, then certified copy is a heightened version of that opaque vision of ourselves and how we perceive others. A certified copy is a copy often a photocopy of a primary document that has on it an endorsement or certificate that it is a true copy of the primary document. James miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. In tuscany to promote his latest book, a middleaged british writer meets a french. Certified copy retraces roberto rossellinis 1954 voyage in italy the film has plenty of a.
While touring tuscany, italy, promoting his new book, english author james william shimell meets french store owner elle juliette binoche, and the. At a book reading, a woman gives him her address, and the next day they meet and take a countryside drive to a local italian village. Yes, we can consider various explanations for what we see, and yes, the films mystery is apparently its purpose. The basic plot a man and a woman traveling and talking is reminiscent of richard linklaters before sunrisebefore sunset films, but the way in which certified copy calls into question the. Certified copy, movie trailers, clips, videos, photos. Juliette binoche and abbas kiarostami in certified copy 2010 abbas kiarostami. In addition to the intriguing mystery of the plot, the style of this film is incredibly interesting and challenging. Donnie darko 2001 if you went to high school in the 2000s, there was no better litmus test than.
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