Certified Copy

Really boring despite the cast. One of those movies where you yourself have to give it meaning as the director did not bother with that. Long trivial boring dialogues that end with nothing at all. Waist of time.

Certified Copy is not a simple picture about a married couple. The questions concern allsorts: are they married, are they divorced, are they strangers, or is it all of these at once? Midway through the picture, everything is turned on its head and one must question everything, though I'm not sure that's even the point. It's as much a comment on cinema and the act of storytelling as it is about love and what it means 15 years down the line. It's not a puzzle to be solved, I know that much. I'm not sure any of you are understanding what Kiarostami (among the greatest living filmmakers) is doing here. I'm not sure I know exactly what he's doing, altogether (at least after only one viewing). But it's a rapturous picture--one of cinema's few modern delights.

Very disappointing. From the trailer, you get the impression this is a story of a relationship that evolves between two people and is set in Tuscany. The film is a sequence of rambling conversations between two people who have just met but inexplicably dislike each other. And it is mostly set indoors, so there is no view. The actors seem good, but the story is aimless. We could only get through 2/3 of it, and could not see it going anywhere. Oh, and the trailer is almost all in English. The film is mostly spoken in French with English subtitles.

Great premis, great acting, great cinemaphotography, a little too mean spirited, I would have liked it much better if it had followed the cliche, predictable ending.

We could not get through twenty minutes of this. Maybe it got better, but if did it would have been a radical departure from the beginning. The writing was perfectly matched by the wooden acting. I think iTunes ought to offer you a free pass forr every dog of a movie like this they make available without lare print warnings. In all fairness, most of the reviews said it was awful. The fault was ours in not taking them seriously enough. This movie was just awful.

I loved this movie because it kept me thinking about it for a couple of weeks. If you generally like arty or foreign films, give this one a shot. If you like your movies to have a clear cut plot line with no ambiguity, skip it. The movie is basically one long (interesting) conversation that keeps you guessing about the characters.

Aside from the lovely Juliette Binoche and the Tuscan scenery, this movie was HORRIBLE. An hour and 40 minutes wasted on watching a bickering and hopeless couple. UGH!!!

Just lovely. Great story, great acting, ending a-la-francaise, food for toughts, and wonderful scirpp.profond .no mistake in renting this movie.

I'm surprised to read the other reviews, especially the great extremes of loving and hating this movie … it's very personal, I suppose. I was first worried it would be romantic and sentimental, then I found it intriguing, lastly I think I get that it's part a glimpse into both the decay and the beauty in a maturing relationship, while also partly very consumed with using the concept of individual experiences as expressed in universal ways. The director and writer have twisted the tale into one that pulls us (it did me) into this net. Are we talking about copies of original art, antiques or surrogates in relationships … are they married? do they have a shared life experience? or do the specifics of their real identities matter since these issues are ones many know very well (and perhaps why many here are feeling so passionately one way or the other)? I thought it masterful in how once at the end, we cannot tell if these two are strangers sharing parallel sentiments or long-time lovers at the end of their time together. I found that most worthy of applause. Binoche was superb, but I found non-actor, opera singer William Shimell a fresh surprise. I say, certainly, give this a try.

Ugh! Incomprehensible.