Miguel Cane
A small town in southern Tuscany is the scene of encounter between a critic British art and the owner of a French art gallery The two live a private affair that transcends the conventions of gender cuaquier. Faithful copy surprising at first sight because it is a European co-production between France and Italy, and the first conference outside their country of lofty and well-known (among a sector of critical) Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who won the Palme d'Or in 1997 with the excellent The Taste of Cherry .
Almost all have said that looks like Roberto Rossellini's classic Italian Journey (1954) and not far from the truth. Kiarostami has always done a very natural film, almost raw, to never use any artificial use to decorate your message. Virtually uses two tools: Actors and script. This takes your style to tell what could be a typical love story in Tuscany, showing only the point of view of its two main characters, apart from the typical landscapes with which we are entertained with the romantic comedies set in the area.
Already in the first sequence, the strength of the looks of the characters, as the son of Elle (Juliette Binoche), who is able to interpret the looks and gestures of his mother to predict their subsequent acts , introduces us to the universe of the couple formed by Elle James (William Shimell). The simple staging allows the viewer to focus on the speech of the protagonists, as the car ride which are reflected in the windshield buildings that even they themselves comment, but who do not pay attention Kiarostami because history is not in buildings or landscape, but in their characters.
Kiarostami takes full advantage of the image projected on the real life actors who give life to his characters: Juliette Binoche, a veritable goddess of European cinema, William Shimell, opera singer who plays the writer which questions the validity of the certified copies found in each pair that crosses his path, or even Jean-Claude Carrière, Buñuel collaborator and friend, who plays one of the pieces of another couple when you look at the protagonists, as they themselves face their own reflection in a mirror in two of the most beautiful sequences in the film.
All three happen to be perfect copies of each of their nationalities, French actress, English and Italian baritone screenwriter, each representing the three languages \u200b\u200bspoken in the film, pointing to a critique of the traditional character Anglo-Saxon as a diner waitress says, do not usually speak a language other than their own. Also, the couple who are Elle and James is not a copy of a universal family, but rather the European couple, the Iranian director himself seems to assume a European artistic nationality sponsored.
But Kiarostami's work will not be interpreted the same by all sectors of the public film is divided into two sectors very pronounced, those who only see it work "boring" and "pretentious", and those who discover in it an interesting story that will stimulate your imagination, which is, ultimately, the the cinema. Certified copy
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With Juliette Binoche, William Shimell and Jean-Claude Carrière
Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
Iran / France / Italy / UK 2010
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