When informed of his packed media interview schedule in Hong Kong, Abbas Kiarostami was not pleased. Given his stature as an international art house cinema titan, he could easily have thrown a...
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Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's first feature-length film, Certified Copy, is not quite an ode to marriage. It's a fascinating look at how something you admit is fake can become more real than...
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26 Jun 2011
Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's first feature-length film, Certified Copy, is not so much an ode to marriage, but a tantalising glimpse of how something that acknowledges its falsehood from...
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26 Jun 2011
Abbas Kiarostami's latest film, Certified Copy, resulted from a meeting between the Iranian director and Juliette Binoche in 2007 when the French actress visited Tehran for the first time.
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In Certified Copy, acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami captures the intriguing relationship between an Englishman and a French woman.
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