Certified Copy (2010) on Netflix
In Tuscany, British writer James Miller promotes a book arguing that a copy can match an original. A French antiques dealer he meets drives him to the village of Lucignano.
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- Rotten Tomatoes89%
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Plot summary
James Miller, a British writer, is in Arezzo, Tuscany, promoting a book that argues authenticity in art is beside the point, since every reproduction is itself an original. A French antiques dealer comes to the reading with her 11-year-old son to get copies signed, but the boy grows hungry and she leaves early, giving her number to the translator. The two meet again at her shop. He suggests they take a drive, with a 9 p.m. train to catch. On the road he inscribes six copies, among them one for her sister Marie, whose note displeases her, and the two argue about his premise. He tells her that even the Mona Lisa reproduces a model, real or imagined. She brings him to a museum to see a celebrated copy, and he says he has finished with examples.
Cast
- Andrea Laurenzias Le guide
- Filippo Trojanoas Le marié
- Manuela Balsinellias The Bride
- Manuela Balsimellias La mariée
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Certified Copy (2010)
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- Sami Frey and François Cluzet were both attached to play the male lead opposite Juliette Binoche, and Robert De Niro was in negotiation, before the part went to William Shimell, an opera baritone who had never acted in a film. Kiarostami cast him after seeing him perform in Così fan tutte at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
- Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance automatically banned the film, saying it needed a license to screen because it was produced by a non-Iranian in Italy. Deputy culture minister Javad Shamaqdari kept it banned from general screening, citing Juliette Binoche's attire, but allowed showings in some private circles and universities.
- Juliette Binoche won the Best Actress award at Cannes on 23 May 2010 and used her acceptance speech to draw attention to Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who had been due to sit on the festival's jury but was arrested and imprisoned by the Iranian regime during the event.
- Abbas Kiarostami first told Juliette Binoche the story in Tehran as a casual anecdote, and she believed it until he admitted he had made it up. By his account, studying how she reacted as she listened became a vital part of developing the film.
- The film was often billed as Kiarostami's first made outside his native Iran, but it was only his first dramatic feature shot abroad, coming after the 2001 documentary ABC Africa and a segment in the 2005 anthology film Tickets.
