FLICS: Certified Copy
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FLICS: Certified Copy
February 3, 2012
7:30 PM (Doors Open 7:00 PM)
Tickets
Admission is $5.00 per ticket at the door.
Film
Lovers International Cinema Society present "Certified Copy." Dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 2010, Frnc/It, 106 min, R
The ever-radiant Juliette Binoche is an antique shop owner accompanying a somewhat stiff author on a tour through the sun-drenched landscape of Tuscany to promote his new book on fakery in art. At the heart of the film is the question of the precise relationship between the two protagonists. Have they met before? Are they merely fan and author? Or are they, as a waitress believes, an estranged couple seeking some kind of reconciliation? As the two talk about art and their respective lives, careers and ideals, the sense of ambiguity grows as they each hold back from full disclosure. The director masterfully leads us down emotional cul-de-sacs as we veer between the feeling that we are witnessing the start of a beautiful romance and something altogether more melancholy. This meditative and sometimes funny mystery story has a serious point to make about the need to feel safe—or at least safer—in a world full of doubts. Juliette Binoche won the Best Actress Award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. In French, English and Italian, with English subtitles.
