Certified Copy

Movie: Certified Copy

Genre: Drama

Synopsis: James Miller (William Shimell) is an award winning author.  He is visiting Tuscany to promote his book and do a book signing.  Elle (Juliette Binoche) attends the signing and leaves a note for the author expressing her wish to meet him.  The next day, Elle and James go for a drive.   When they stop for coffee, the waitress mistakes them for a married couple.  Elle does not correct her.  For the rest of the movie, the two pretend to be married . . . but after a while you start to wonder if it really is an act, or if there is more to therse two than we have been allowed to see.

My two cents: This movie really had me scratching my head trying to figure out what was “pretend” and what was real between the couple.  I am still not sure.  Some of the discussions they have on art and what it means and the difference between original and copies pretty much bored me.  What kept me going is tgrying to figure out the relationship between the two.

Something I got a kick out of is the way the director used reflective surfaces.  In at least two scenes,  the camera is in the position of a mirror as one or the other stares into it.  I also got used to checking out what was going on in the reflections in mirrors and windows. 

Although I found this film to be interesting, I don’t know that I can say that I really enjoyed it.

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