More compelling as an intellectual exercise than an emotional one, “Certified Copy” finds deep-thinking writer-director Abbas Kiarostami asserting there’s nothing new under the Tuscan sun, ...

There are certain films that are simply magic. They are few and far between, and the experience of watching them often comes up over you. You realize you’re watching a masterpiece, and you don’t want ...

Studio/Runtime: IFC Films/106 min. In the tradition of Journey to Italy and Before Sunrise, Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy consists almost entirely of two people talking with each other. The ...

Finally gracing British shores after cooking up some sizable buzz at Cannes is this intriguing piece from Iranian arthouse superstar, Abbas Kiarostami. His first feature-length fiction since the Palme ...

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. By The ...

A certain obliquity is necessary for anyone working within a repressive regime like the Iran of the ayatollahs, and the circumspection of movie-makers there has contributed to the creation of a subtle ...

Abbas Kiarostami's new movie has an Italian setting; it is his first fiction feature to be made outside Iran, and it really is an oddity – an intriguing oddity, but an oddity nonetheless. Certified ...

Certified Copy is about a man and a woman. James Miller (William Shimell) is an author who’s visiting Italy to talk about his new book on the idea of originality in art. The woman (never named, played ...