Source: BRAD BREVET
One of the most interesting films of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival is Abbas Kiarostami's Tuscan romance Certified Copy starring Juliette Binoche and William Shimell. What initially appears to be a story of a chance meeting between two people quickly becomes something much more. What is going on exactly? Have these two people known each other for 15 years or more? Are they just meeting? Is this even a linear narrative telling one cohesive story or perhaps just a series of vignettes representing all that could take place on a couples' one day tour of Tuscany? The film plays with your mind and I had a hard time enjoying it until it was over and I began piecing it together from the little clues Kiarostami gave me.
Shimmel plays James Miller, an English author whose latest book, "Certified Copy," speaks to the heart of the film. His book looks at the years of replica and copied artworks and says a copy is just as relevant as the original. After all, if you're told a copy is the original and have already placed value in it, does it make it any less valuable if you're then told it is in fact a copy? It would seem Kiarostami is asking the same question about his duplicitous story.
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