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| Genre | Drama |
| Format | Blu-ray |
| Contributor | Abbas Kiarostami, William Shimell, Juliette Binoche |
| Language | Italian, French, English |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 46 minutes |
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The great Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (Close-up) travels to Tuscany for a luminous and provocative romance in which nothing is as it appears. What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people played by Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche (Blue) and opera singer William Shimell getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, Certified Copy (Copie conforme) reminds us that love itself is an enigma.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4 Ounces
- Item model number : CRRN2146BR
- Director : Abbas Kiarostami
- Media Format : Blu-ray
- Run time : 1 hour and 46 minutes
- Release date : May 22, 2012
- Actors : Juliette Binoche, William Shimell
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Criterion Collection
- ASIN : B007A9EG8G
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #17,476 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,567 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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"It might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure--or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified." ~ FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
"The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself. This drive is not truly vanquished and scarcely subdued by the fact that a regular and rigid new world is constructed as its prison from its own ephemeral products, the concepts. It seeks a new realm and another channel for its activity, and it finds this in myth and in art generally. This drive continually confuses the conceptual categories and cells by bringing forward new transferences, metaphors, and metonymies. It continually manifests an ardent desire to refashion the world which presents itself to waking man, so that it will be as colorful, irregular, lacking in results and coherence, charming, and eternally new as the world of dreams. Indeed, it is only by means of the rigid and regular web of concepts that the waking man clearly sees that he is awake; and it is precisely because of this that he sometimes thinks that he must be dreaming when this web of concepts is torn by art." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense" (1873)
“Every idea that is a true idea has a form, and is capable of many forms. The variety of forms of which it is capable determines the value of the idea. So by way of ideas, and your mastery of them in relation to what you are doing, will come your value as an architect to your society and future." - "Idea and Essence" September 7, 1958 ― Frank Lloyd Wright
As the film progresses, Elle and James enter into increasing levels of intimacy, surprising the audience over and over. Of course most of us have been on this ride from meeting with attractive stranger to entangled attachment, to the frustration of expecting others to fulfill our wishes, to the suffering and arguments and finally to some measure of detachment. In the ride Kiarostami takes us on, we get to watch the process from the observer standpoint. We get to observe the ways that masculine and feminine magnetize; attract and then repel.
There is a wealth of symbolism here, from the statuary in Elle's antiques shop, to telephone conversations, to weddings and costume jewelry earrings and, indeed, a certified copy. I published a symbolic review of this film in my e book Poetry in Motion: 19 Symbolic Reviews of Transformational Film, here on Amazon (software for linking is not working right now).
Hint to those who watch: pay attention to the question posed by the teenaged son early in the flick.
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One for Juliette Binoche fans.
to you, if you work all the time an don’t pay attention to one another, you get this, an this has consequences,
like no other thing in the world, that’s called Separation, I just love this movie, two people having a stroll
on a Sunday afternoon re-living their lives but you wouldn’t know it, it’s like an underlining of guilt,
that no one wants to admit to, best of-all I love about the movie no sex no murder, Nada. nothing like that,
Run Time 106 Min.
5.1 Surround in English, French an Italian,
with English subtitles,
1.85:1 Aspect Ratio.
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