Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

harihar90 What begins as a walk-and-talk with two middle-aged strangers at its centre, then turns into something much, much more intriguing. The reason for the intrigue is not the plot itself, but rather (my conception of) the point that the film raises. Should we go along in the ride with characters exploring their (possibly faux?) lives in movies, or should we try to assign a truth value to their story within the world of the film - considering that the world of the film itself is not an 'original' but just a 'copy' in the first place? Is there any point in doing the former, and does art lose it's intrinsic value if we do the latter? Does art have any intrinsic value to lose at all in the first place?...At the hands of a great director and supported by a mercurial performance by Juliette Binoche, the movie should have been something incredible. But sadly, it falls short as the perseverance with which it raises its points about truth distracted me from staying emotionally involved with the characters as I couldn't help but feel that all the interactions were nothing but a play staged to make the film's point about art and truth. A finely-crafted academic exercise, with some intriguing ideas, that left me a bit cold at the end.

kurosawakira I admit having not seen enough Kiarostami, but having seen enough to say that each his films are unique pleasures for a fan of cinema. No matter what the subject matter, he's always able, either explicitly or implicitly, to teach us something profound about art and filmmaking, which in my vocabulary is very close to "life" as a noun and "to live" as a verb.A truly international film, a French-Italian-Belgian production, Kiarostami's "Copie conforme" (2010) is his first dramatic film to be shot outside Iran. And the film is a delight. The first ten minutes are spellbinding, and foreground the film perfectly, offering not only really substantial intellectual stimulation (intellectual here, unfortunately, as an expression, seems to undermine all the other words) but hints at what's going to happen later on. The copy as important as the original.Some scenes are framed as paintings before closeups. The sense that everything is not as it seems soon settles in. And when the shift occurs, what an amazing moment! We lose our place, we swerve, the film becomes a different entity, a stranger that has been masquerading as a friend or a friend who's masquerading as a stranger.And Juliette Binoche! She's like Gong Li, Madhabi Mukherjee, Monica Vitti and Hara Setsuko, all genuine jewels in the art of acting, breathing humanity, able to carry the weight of the narrative and dress it up in an emotional context. Hint at that which is not seen, make meaningful that which is. William Shimell is great, as well, and it's amazing to think it's his first role. Kiarostami's style is effortless, smooth and rhythmic, the images dance with each other. And this film is a dance I wouldn't want to miss.

teatag My hopes for this film were high. I wished for the Juliette Binoche of 1988-2000, who chose some excellent films in which to act, beginning with The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and ranging forward in time to The Widow of St. Pierre (underrated, I think). Alas, Certified Copy is of a piece with 2005's Caché, but worse. Caché led me by the nose until the very end, when it turned out to be about nothing. It was evident about 15 minutes into Certified Copy that it was nothing -- nothing but pretentious, meaningless chit-chat. I know when to cut my losses, so I did. My evening was not a total loss because my early termination of Certified Copy left me time in which to listen to the never-boring 1952 recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, with Jan Peerce as tenor soloist. It was (as always) an electrifying experience, quite the opposite of the stultifying experience imparted by Certified Copy.

wandereramor What's really remarkable about Certified Copy is not that it's great, but that it appears to be great effortlessly. The story plays out like an extended tangent, the kind of unexpected lingering that makes up a real courtship, driven by well-observed dialogue and a smoothness of direction that carries you along without making you realize how much time goes by. The entire film is basically a conversation between Shimell and Binoche, and the two actors prove themselves more than capable of carrying a dialogue across ninety minutes without it ever becoming tiresome.The twist, of course, is that there are two parts of the film: one in which Shimell and Binoche are newly-acquainted and obviously infatuated with each other, and another in which they're a married couple who can't forget the kind of grudges built up over a decade. Neither of the two stories are really satisfying in themselves: the new lovers are devoid of conflict, and their tour through the countryside could be mistaken for a very well-shot tourist video, and the married couple are all sturm un drang, conflict bordering on melodrama, about pretty standard-issue problems. Together they make something really unique. Certified Copy poses us the question not just of which one of these narratives is true (if either is), but which one we want to be true, and whether or not the distinction of truth even matters. Conceptual brain-twister plot lines like this are usually done in garish sci-fi spectacles like Inception or eXistenZ, but Kiorastami manages to do it without ever breaking the quiet art-house aesthetic.This is definitely not a movie for everyone, and won't be a blockbuster anytime soon. Its slow pace and lack of exposition may grate at even reasonably seasoned cinephiles, and this can't entirely be excused with the justification of art. But at the same time it's a truly unique movie with an interesting perspective and a lot of charm. Everyone should at least give this one a chance.