Recommended. If men and women have such fundamentally different expectations of love, as seems believed by Certified Copy, then I wonder how anyone could ever stay together for longer than a weekend. Renowned writer/director Abbas Kiarostami’s first drama shot outside of Iran loops through a relationship between Juliette Binoche, who won an award a Cannes for this effort, and operatic star William Shimell over the course of a long drive through the Tuscany countryside. Shimell’s character has written a book about the value of reproductions and the analogy to their (maybe?) pretend marriage is obvious. Is anyone still afraid of Virginia Woolf? But, cinema of the absurd, notwithstanding, Certified Copy owes more to the puzzle of L'Avventura and the universal mystery of relationship dysfunction. The only leap of faith is anyone falling out of love with Ms. Binoche. But this challenging movie, much like serious romance, is not for the timid.
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