Until we meet again in the Belcourt lobby, let’s keep our film talk going! Join the Belcourt Theatre and Nashville Scene for the Living Room Film Club, where we gather from our homes via Zoom to discuss films from the Criterion Channel. Each meeting, we’ll focus on a collection from the Criterion Channel, with one film as the spotlight. Watch the spotlight film on your own, explore other films in the collection, and join our guest speakers for a 30-minute discussion. For best results, watch the film just before the 8pm meeting time. Details for our first gathering are below. Information on future gatherings will be announced soon.
Wed, Apr 1 at 8:00pm:
The first film we’ll discuss is Abbas Kiarostami’s CERTIFIED COPY from Criterion’s “Starring Juliette Binoche” collection. Join us at 8pm for a conversation with Jennifer Fay, director of Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University, and Sadaf Ahsan, contributing writer for the Nashville Scene.
We recommend that you join the Zoom video call at 7:50pm to get comfortable with the platform.
CERTIFIED COPY
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami | Iran/France/Italy/Belgium | 2010 | 106 min. | NR
In French, English, and Italian with English subtitles
The great Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami travels to Tuscany for a luminous and provocative romance in which nothing is as it appears. What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people—played by Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and opera singer William Shimell—getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, CERTIFIED COPY reminds us that love itself is an enigma.
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(Offer available to Belcourt members who are new monthly Criterion Channel subscribers only).