Certified Copy (2010)

CERTIFIED COPY  (2010)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Abbas Kiarostami
    Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière,
    Agatha Natanson, Gianna Giachetti, Adrian Moore
A middle-aged man and woman spend a Sunday walking around a small town in Tuscany, talking about life and art, and playing a mind game that blurs the lines between pretense and identity and becomes more intense and unsettling the longer it goes on. At first, they barely seem to know each other. Then they seem to slip into pretending they're married. Then they seem to be married, as if they were only pretending to be strangers in the first place. They're pretentious, anyway, and not real likeable, and you kind of get tired of them after a while, which is too bad, because Binoche and Simell are both very good playing them. The Tuscan scenery is beautiful, and the setup feels a little like of one of Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight" movies, only way more disturbed and dysfunctional.