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If you love it or if you don’t, this is a must see. A great work not just to introduce the iranian cinema but to also introduce a different culture and how creators find their ways to create through limitations. Iam absolutely amazed by this short film!!
Mar 31, 2024
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I watched 94 minutes in Farsi & was fully focused on reading subtitles. It’s an incredible movie that plays with humor and contrasts, stereotypes and symbols. It showcases the insanely beautiful landscapes of the Iranian countryside while framing the sad cultural reality of emigration. Besides that Rayan Sarlak’s acting is outstanding. It’s easy to watch, yet artistic and intellectual - really really really worth watching
Mar 7, 2025
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an all-time great imho and criminally under the radar given Makhmalbaf‘s juggernaut status.
it was cool when I found out a good English subtitle version had been uploaded @ this link on my birthday this year :’)
Dec 31, 2023
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in 2020 i set out to watch at least a film a day. spoiler: i didn't. i did managed to get just over 250 under my belt, which was a lot more than i thought possible given that i was working 44h a week at the time. one of the 34 films i watched in april (look, i was working remotely during that month. there's a lot o can accomplish when no one's watching me do my thing and i don't have to spend two hours a day on a bus) was certified copy.
i wasn't familiar with kiarostami's work. i saw it on richard ayoade's criterion closet video and decided to give it a chance. To be quite honest i wasn't really impressed during the first half of it. but halfway through it i felt like someone had flipped a switch in my brain. it's a very particular scene; you'll know it when you watch it.
it starts as a wonderful conversation on the meaning of originality, and then evolves into an exploration on the main characters' relationship, dancing on the line between fact and fiction. kiarostami was a master on the art of dialogue and metalanguage, and certified copy is just another example of it (check out the koker trilogy if you love this kind of stuff). it kickly became my favourite film, and every time i rewatch it i spend a few hours processing it.
Jan 23, 2024
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Three years ago i had a breakup on the first day of April, and i saw a post had this screenshot from the film. This how i got to watch it!
• Still my favourite “stumbling on a film”
Apr 1, 2024
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If you’re someone who’s not been lifted by the surroundings you were born into, someone will come along the way, they will lift you and you will feel it the people around will feel too, so when they do HOLD on to them because they’ll never be back.
Either a partner or a friend or colleague. you just don’t get so many chances with this kind of precious people i think you’d be super lucky of you got more than three chances. So hold on to your loved ones💌
May 19, 2024
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Not something necessarily productive or makes you proud. it just brings you joy (probably would be stupid) i think in stupidity lays joy!
Apr 3, 2024