"Certified Copy" is the upcoming brand new Kiarostami's. The first work he is doing outside Iran. This is by itself very interesting to observe, Kiarostami's movies were acted and done by amateurs and inexperienced techs under extreme Iranian restrictions. Now he is directing a few-million-dollar-budget movie with professional actors (like Juliette Binoche, one of Kieslowski's favorites) in Europe. The movie is supposed to be screened at Cannes.
The last movie of his that I watched and enjoyed was The Wind Will Carry Us, that approached a similar theme to his 1997's Taste of Cherry (Death). Both of them being very good (and near-great) works. The Wind will Carry Us follows a journalist (who looks like Kiarostami) visiting a distant village waiting for one of the oldest women in Iran who had fallen sick to die so he can have a scoop about it. Taste of Cherry is about a middle-aged man who -for no obvious reasons- decided to plan his suicide.
