Film: Certified Copy (Copie Conforme)
Year: 2010
Writer/Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Starring: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Agathe Natanson, Gianna Giachetti, Adrian Moore, Angelo Barbagallo, Andrea Laurenzi, Filippo Trojano.
Running time: 106 min.
NOTE: If you have not seen this film, I don't suggest you read this review any further. It's best you go in knowing as little as possible, like I did, because you'll definitely be better off.
I admit, Certified Copy was a film that I became interested in when it was playing on the trailer loop disc back in August, but we never got any at the shop because it's one of those 'nasty' foreign movies that nobody likes. Certified Copy is one of those films that you should never judge by a trailer, or anything else, for that matter. It is really the kind of film which you just watch and absorb as it comes, and I love it for that fact. Through the trailer, you would suspect that the movie is a foreign/indie romantic drama between Juliette Binoche and British opera singer William Shimell (in his first proper feature film). But no, that is far too conventional. Certified Copy is never really anything; it can't really be categorised as a particular kind of film. It's in a league of it's own, even if it looks far too simple to be that way.
