Certified Copy (2010) poster
2010 · drama · romance

Certified Copy

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami1h 46m2010
ElsewhereIMDb7.229kRT89%Metacritic82TMDB7.0449
  • sombre
  • slow-burn
  • signature
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Sombre, slow-burn, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

Our read · Certified Copy (2010) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a Tuscan day that keeps shifting what this couple really is.

ends ambiguousit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 22attention 5/5earns its lengthsubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if ambiguous relationship puzzles without payoff frustrate you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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