sense & non-sense

Certified Copy certainly feels like an Abbas Kiarostrami film - it may be his most welcoming to date. That said, it is still takes turns being interesting and frustrating, which par for the course, when your films are examinations of the Big Concepts (life, death, etc) with the use of engaging (but long) conversations between your characters . In this particular case, Certified Copy is 106 minutes of discussion about art, morality, authenticity, relationships, interpretation and misinterpretation, set against a beautiful backdrop of Tuscany. It sounds tiring, but luckily the film isn’t, all thanks to marvelous performances by Juliette Binoche (whose smiles will leave you breathless and whose tears will break your heart) and William Shimell who, hopefully, will be in more films in the future (even his speaking voice is handsome).