Certified Copy | Criterion Collection Blu Ray

The great Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami travels to Tuscany for a luminous and provocative romance in which nothing is as it appears. What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people—played by Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and opera singer William Shimell—getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, Certified Copy reminds us that love itself is an enigma.

Director-Approved Special Edition Features

– New high-definition digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
– The rarely seen 1977 Kiarostami film The Report, which deals with similar themes
– New interview with director Abbas Kiarostami
– Let’s See “Copia conforme,” an Italian documentary on the making of Certified Copy, featuring interviews with Kiarostami and actors Juliette Binoche and William Shimell
– Trailer
– New English subtitle translation
– PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Godfrey Cheshire
– New cover by Eric Skillman