Certified Copy (film)

Certified Copy French Copie conforme is a 2010 art film by Iranian writer and director Abbas Kiarostami, starring Juliette Binoche and the British opera singer William Shimell, in his first film role. The film is set in Tuscany, and focuses on a British writer and a French antiques dealer, whose relationship undergoes an odd transformation over the course of a day. The film was a Frenchmajority production, with coproducers in Italy and Belgium. The dialogue is in French, English and Italian.

After the opening scenes, the film portrays an afternoon of two people spending time together getting to know each other, and emotions run the gamut of possibilities.British writer James Miller Shimell is in Tuscany to give a talk to a group about his new book, titled Certified Copy, which argues that, in art, issues of authenticity are irrelevant, because every reproduction is itself an original and even the original is a copy of another form. A French antiques dealer, whose name is never given Binoche, attends the event with her 11yearold son in order to have Miller sign several copies of the book she has purchased, but has to leave early because her son is hungry and becomes a distraction. She leaves her phone number with Millers translator. ........

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