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, ...

One of the first images in "Certified Copy" is of a book, "Copia Conforme," resting by itself on a table. The cover displays the visage of Michelangelo’s statue of David, gazing archly at its own face ...

‘Certified Copy” is the type of film that many critics have orgasms over and the general public finds about as appealing as dysentery. I’ll side with the general public on this one. The film does have ...

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 ...

Ordinarily, a new movie by Abbas Kiarostami ("Taste of Cherry") would be an opportunity to remind readers that Iran produces some of the finest films in the world. But "Certified Copy" is Kiarostami ...

“Now that we’re strangers,” an imperious George Sanders says to a restless Ingrid Bergman in Roberto Rossellini’s 1953 film “Journey to Italy,” “we can start all over again.” The moment arrives in so ...

Certified Copy, the first English-language film by the Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami, is a road-trip meditation on the complexities of marriage. Like almost all the work by this 71-year-old ...

When you've reached the end of Abbas Kiarostami's stunning, dizzying Certified Copy, tell me how you'd define the relationship between the two main characters ... When you’ve reached the end of Abbas ...

LITTLE ROCK — Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy is so different from most movies one is likely to encounter in U.S. cinemas that perhaps a little background is in order. Kiarostami, 70, is perhaps the ...

Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami (Close-Up, Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us) is the sort of filmmaker whose very name whets the appetite of cinephiles, whether they are admirers or ...

“Certified Copy,” Abbas Kiarostami’s lovely labyrinth of a film, is best seen without having read reviews that divulge what the director reveals — or hints at — only gradually (this one won’t). The ...