dir:  Abbas Kiarostami
pro: Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillbert, Angelo Barbagallo, Bibi Film, France 3 Cinéma
sc: Abbas Kiarostami, Massoumeh Lahidji
ph: Luca Bigazzi 
ed: Bahman Kiarostami
cast: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell
dis MK2

This is the story of a meeting between one man and one woman, in a small Italian village in Southern Tuscany. The man is a British author who has just finished giving a lecture at a conference. He is played by William Shimell, a well-known opera singer, a baritone. The woman from France, played by Juliette Binoche, owns an art gallery.

This man and this woman who have—it seems—only just met are playing at being a couple. They pretend so well, in fact, that they seem to become one, or to have already been one for fifteen years. They have already come here. They have already played this scene. As have all couples who come to make love in Tuscany, to invent their own love story, to play in their own film. Is she the bold seductress of barely a moment’s acquaintance, who wants a man and has the courage to show that she does? And he, does he want her? Does he know her? As of an hour ago, a whole lifetime ago, what does he know about her? And about art, and love, and his desire, and what he must make of his life, this evening at nine, and every evening? This is a common story that could happen to anyone, anywhere.

Certified Copy / Copie Conforme (FR-IT) 2010 colour 106 min.

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