Abbas Kiarostami returns to Cannes with his Certified Copy (Copie Conforme), starring Juliette Binoche. It’s his first film to be made outside Iran and it has an intriguingly atypical storyline: an English writer on a book-tour of Italy meets a Frenchwoman and embarks on a romantic adventure with her. It certainly sounds much different from his previous film, also featuring Binoche: Shirin, a quasi-static evocation of the faces of Iranian women watching a movie. This film was considered to have somehow intuited, in an inspired way, the famous and tragic news photo of the “Angel of Iran”, Neda Agha Soltan.
