Copie conforme 2010

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: This may infuriate some. It delighted me. Others might find the whole idea, well, pretentious. It's not. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Despite its modernist sensibility, there is little reason to be intimidated, unless you find the character of James abhorrent. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: What is cinema but an elaborate simulation that, in the hands of an artist, mines real truth from fiction? By that criterion, Certified Copy is indeed the genuine article. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: The movie threatens to become a sketch about a coquette and a boor squabbling at each other to little effect. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: Ultimately, the film's slow-building, eventually overwhelming emotional pull gives Certified Copy its shape and pace. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: There's a divinely comical lightness to Binoche here: Even in states of conniption and complaint, she's floating, albeit manically. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The conclusion is abrupt and unsatisfying, but the philosophical dialogue Kiarostami manages to keep aloft for well over an hour touches on intriguing questions of openness, self-honesty, and personal freedom. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It is a calm sort of dream, a serious work about love and truth and fraudulence and authenticity done with a mysteriously light touch. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The Iranian-writer director Abbas Kiarostami has always been enthralled by the shifting planes of fantasy and reality. His latest film, Certified Copy, is his fullest expression of that entrancement. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Has the appeal of a middle-aged Before Sunrise. Read more

Laremy Legel, Film.com: A film in the form of a question, but my, how lovely the inquiry is. Read more

Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: After years of working on photography, poetry and more experimental films, Abbas Kiarostami makes an engaging return to narrative cinema in a delicate, bittersweet comedy set in romantic Italy. Read more

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: Like its central couple, the film is a volatile mix of the studied and deeply felt. Read more

David Denby, New Yorker: A brilliant, endlessly fascinating work. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Kiarostami has a wonderful star in Juliette Binoche and an interesting find in William Shimell, a British opera singer making his dramatic-film debut. Read more

Scott Tobias, NPR: A film as audacious and radical as any likely to see theaters this year. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: It is literate and engrossing, with excellent performances by Binoche, who won the best-actress prize last year at Cannes, and Shimell, in his screen debut. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Offers a shambling, multilingual discourse on the nature of art and the nature of marriage. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: . The basic plot - a man and a woman traveling and talking - is reminiscent of Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise/Before Sunset films, but the way in which Certified Copy calls into question the nature of reality is more akin to Inception. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Kiarostami is playing with us. That he does it so well is a consolation. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Kiarostami never completely spells things out, assuming audiences can think for themselves and appreciate all the film's subtleties and reverberations. Let's hope he's right. Read more

Dana Stevens, Slate: Abbas Kiarostami, Juliette Binoche, and Tuscany: The movie Certified Copy had me at hello. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Certified Copy" promises more than it delivers, but the limited portions are fresh. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Certified Copy is a slighter but more ingratiating film and a chance to see a master filmmaker in uncharacteristic playful mode. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Certified Copy is a genuine triumph. Read more

David Jenkins, Time Out: If there's a problem with the film, it's the idea that two people would instinctively choose to immerse themselves in unbroken role play. Read more

Rob Nelson, Variety: More compelling as an intellectual exercise than an emotional one. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy is exactly that: The Iranian modernist's first feature to be shot in the West is a flawless riff on our indigenous art cinema. Read more