Certified Copy Page #2

Synopsis: James Miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. At a book reading, a woman gives him her address, and the next day they meet and take a country-side drive to a local Italian village. Here, they discuss various works of art found in the town, and also the nature of their relationship - which gets both more revealed and concealed as the day progresses.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Abbas Kiarostami
Production: Artificial Eye Film Co. Ltd
  10 wins & 24 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
NOT RATED
Year:
2010
106 min
$1,337,384
Website
1,371 Views


- I didn't get married

to find myself alone!

I would like to share my life

with my husband.

Am I expecting too much?

By wanting a good husband?

- Life is not so terrible,

if the only problem is...

a very busy working-husband.

Better a man busy for his work

than for another woman!

- We work too, but

with moderation.

- We decide to be moderate, but them,

they cannot stop working.

It's as if we asked them

to stop breathing :

It's not possible.

I never asked my husband to stop.

- Of course!

How could you?

The world could stop working :

don't put a spoke in their wheel

- My sister, she likes to know

her husband is at work, most of the time!

This is a particular case.

Don't you think that

moderation should be in all things?

- It would be ideal,

but ideal doesn't exist.

Wine, please...

I'm coming.

It would be stupid to feel miserable

because of an ideal.

Please keep it secret.

They don't need to notice that.

- How can I be happy

with an absent husband?

They're not really completely absent :

your husband made you a married woman,

and this is what really matters.

You only understand that

with age.

For how long have you been married?

For 15 years.

Have you got children?

A son.

Last week,

my husband even forgot

his son's birthday!

I can't believe that!

- Like I said :

he only thinks about himself and work!

... and about friends...

Yes, surely...

... and about lovers.

I don't know.

But you're trying to find...

... to whom he's talking

on sundays.

No, I'm just looking at him.

Yes, but with suspicion,

while I'm admiring him.

- Why do you admire him?

Can you tell me?

With pleasure.

Most of the men like to have a lie-in,

on sundays.

But your husband went out with you,

took you to a coffee bar,

he told you stories

with pleasure,

it seems that he's always

trying to seduce you...

Really?

If he were shaved, he would be perfect.

He only shaves every two days.

Even on our wedding day, he didn't shave!

- You should be used to,

from now onwards.

- Yes.

On the wedding day, my uncle asked me...

... why my husband didn't shave.

I told him I didn't know.

so he asked him :

'' Shouldn't you shave on your wedding day? ''

My husband answered,

touching slowly his beard :

''I shave...

... every two days! ''

Do you want another coffee?

It's so strange

that you don't speak italian

like your wife living here

for 5 years with your son.

No, there is no one at home.

It's Sunday. It is closed.

Search and you will find it.

There's no one at home,

you'll have to find it.

Search...

No, don't go, don't bother

going to the nearby, go...

Go upstairs to my office on the first floor!

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