Certified Copy

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

2010 / 106min / DCP

Returning to shot-on-film narrative cinema after a decade of video experiments to make his first film outside of Iran, Kiarostami traveled to Tuscany to team with Juliette Binoche, who gives a disarmingly raw performance as an antiques dealer whose path crosses with that of an author (English opera singer William Shimell) following one of his book tour appearances—though as to if this meeting is truly a first encounter or if we are instead witnessing a couple role-playing or perhaps some sleight of chronology are but two of the mysteries central to this riveting, radiant film that delves deep into the relationship between originals and their copies.

Part of Visionary Auteurs: Five Decades of mk2