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Maurice Pialat’s La maison des bois, playing in New York this weekend at the Museum of the Moving Image's retrospective on the director, consists of seven episodes each about an hour long. The series follows Hervé (Hervé Levy), a young boy living in a “house in the woods” with foster parents Albert (Pierre Doris) and Jeanne (Jacqueline Dufranne), and is set during WWII. Hervé hangs out, gets into trouble, goes to school. His father (Paul Crauchet) is in the army; his mother left them before the film’s events. The story overlaps in many ways with Pialat’s previous film, L’enfance nue, to the point where it’s easy to assume that Pialat was tapping the same autobiographical well for both projects. Maison, however, is looser and more expansive than usual for Pialat, and consequently more direct about his concerns. While there’s a great deal of detail in any Pialat work,...

See new clips, the movie trailer and images from Certified Copy, starring Juliette Binoche, William Shimell and Jean-Claude Carriere. The IFC Films release (also known as Copie conforme in French) which opens March 11th, debuted at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and is directed and written by Abbas Kiarostami. Also in the cast of the drama are Agathe Natanson, Gianna Giachetti, Adrian Moore, Angela Barbagallo, Andrea Laurenzi, Filippo Troiano and Manuela Balsimelli.

See new clips, the movie trailer and images from Certified Copy, starring Juliette Binoche, William Shimell and Jean-Claude Carriere. The IFC Films release (also known as Copie conforme in French) which opens March 11th, debuted at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and is directed and written by Abbas Kiarostami. Also in the cast of the drama are Agathe Natanson, Gianna Giachetti, Adrian Moore, Angela Barbagallo, Andrea Laurenzi, Filippo Troiano and Manuela Balsimelli.

Chicago – In our latest romantic drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Certified Copy” starring Juliette Binoche from legendary auteur Abbas Kiarostami!

The movie from IFC Films took best actress at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and played well in Oct. 2010 at the Chicago International Film Festival. “Certified Copy” also stars William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson, Gianna Giachetti, Adrian Moore, Angelo Barbagallo, Andrea Laurenzi and Filippo Trojano from writer and director Abbas Kiarostami. IFC is releasing the film in Chicago on March 18, 2011.

To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Certified Copy” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.

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This is the Pure Movies review for Certified Copy, directed by Abbas Kiarostami and stars Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson, Gianna Giachetti, Adrian Moore and Angelo Barbagallo. Written by Nell Frizzell. Let me first say this; I love old Juliette Brioche. I really love her. If you'd asked me a couple of months ago I probably would have said "God, I could just watch her for hours. Give me Juliette Binoche, in a nice outfit, and I'm happy. Throw in a silver fox, some beautiful Tuscan landscape and some romance and I'm happier than un cochon in merde."...

This is the trailer for Certified Copy on www.PureMovies.co.uk. Certified Copy is directed by Abbas Kiarostami and stars Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson, Gianna Giachetti, Adrian Moore and Angelo Barbagallo. James Miller (William Shimell) is an English writer, in Tuscany to promote his new book. An unidentified gallery owner (Juliette Binoche, who won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance) attends Miller’s lecture on the subject of art and the value of original works versus copies, following which the pair meet up and decide to embark upon a sightseeing journey through the picturesque Tuscan countryside. There, they are mistaken for a married couple. On the insistence of the woman they keep up the pretence, but as time goes on we realise that there may be more to their seemingly new relationship than meets the eye.

Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) is Abbas Kiarostami’s first film made outside Iran and In Competition for the Palme D’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Juliette Binoche In Certified Copy

What’s so special about this one, and why they already call it one of the more anticipated films? Ok, we do know that lovely Juliette Binoche and William Shimell are in the movie, but we still think it’s mostly because they describe it as ”a universal story that could happen to anyone, anywhere…”

And that universal story goes like this: “Set in Tuscany, Certified Copy follows the journey of a British writer (William Shimell) who is giving a series of conferences on Art and the interactions that exist between an original artwork and it’s copy (a theme illustrated before by such film masters as Orson Welles in “F For Fake”).

He meets a young...