Cannes is just over a week away now, and today we get a sneak peek at Abbas Kiarostami’s “Certified Copy” which will premiere In Competition at the festival.
The enigmatic teaser is quite simple: it’s a single shot featuring Juliette Binoche applying lipstick, walking away from the camera to look out the window, and walking back to finish putting on the lipstick.
We tried to Google translate the official synopsis with moderate success. Make of it what you will below:
James, an English writer, gives Italy, to mark the release of his latest book, a conference on the close relationship between the original and the copy in the art. He meets a young woman of French origin, gallerist, who leads for a few hours in the streets of a small village in southern Tuscany. When a woman likes to move it for her husband too often absent, the writer agrees to return to his game but it is a dangerous game, and soon it becomes difficult to distinguish right from wrong…
“Certified Copy” will open on May 19th in France. No word yet on dates for North America or other territories.
–Written by Kevin Jagernauth