A Few Words About A few words about...™ Certified Copy -- in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Robert Harris]

I'm willing to bet that few of you are aware of the work of Iranian filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami.

But with the release of http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007A9EG8G/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=afewwordsabout-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B007A9EG8G

 

[ShellOilJunior]

Thanks for the review, Mr. Harris.
This is a wonderful film. It reminds me so much of Before Sunrise/Sunset and even Last Year at Marienbad. I like how Kiarostami respects the viewer by not giving away too much. It's much more stimulating to watch, feel and think than it is to watch and be spoon-fed the answers.
Binoche and Shimell are outstanding.I see myself revisiting this film many times.
Certified Copy will take its place in my collection next to Kiarostami's Close-up.

 

[SeanAx]

A beautiful film and, I believe, a towering work of art. I watched it multiple times and love the new Blu-ray. I have not had time to watch his second feature "The Report," which is included on the disc, but I look forward to it.

When I first saw the film, my mind raced to understand what was happening when, in the midst of a stop in a trattoria an chatty proprietor mistakes the man for the woman's husband, they simply segue into the roles and the outing becomes a portrait of a marriage fifteen years on. Then I saw it as the cinematic equivalent of a Picasso cubist portrait. Instead of showing multiple perspectives of an object in an image, Kiarostami presents experiences from different periods in a life in a single narrative. What we finally see is the life of a relationship, from first meeting to 15th anniversary, with estrangement, arguments and bickering in between and a wedding, middle age and old age played out in couples around them, in a single day. 15 years on, they still aren't able to communicate or even understand one another.

And Juliette Binoche is a goddess.

 

[ShellOilJunior]

Criterion's Current has an excellent article on Kiarostami and Certified Copy today:
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2303-certified-copy-at-home-and-abroad