More compelling as an intellectual exercise than an emotional one, “Certified Copy” finds deep-thinking writer-director Abbas Kiarostami asserting there’s nothing new under the Tuscan sun, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Ordinarily, a new movie by Abbas Kiarostami ("Taste of Cherry") would be an opportunity to remind readers that Iran produces some ...

One of the first images in "Certified Copy" is of a book, "Copia Conforme," resting by itself on a table. The cover displays the visage of Michelangelo’s statue of David, gazing archly at its own face ...

‘Certified Copy,” Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s first feature set outside his homeland, offers a shambling, multilingual discourse on the nature of art and the nature of marriage. That this ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Iran's Abbas Kiarostami is an acclaimed filmmaker, but one who's always played better at Cannes than in Tehran. So perhaps it's not surprising that with "Certified Copy," the director has gone to ...

There are certain films that are simply magic. They are few and far between, and the experience of watching them often comes up over you. You realize you’re watching a masterpiece, and you don’t want ...

“Now that we’re strangers,” an imperious George Sanders says to a restless Ingrid Bergman in Roberto Rossellini’s 1953 film “Journey to Italy,” “we can start all over again.” The moment arrives in so ...

Certified Copy, the first English-language film by the Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami, is a road-trip meditation on the complexities of marriage. Like almost all the work by this 71-year-old ...

Ordinarily, a new movie by Abbas Kiarostami ("Taste of Cherry") would be an opportunity to remind readers that Iran produces some of the finest films in the world. But "Certified Copy" is Kiarostami ...