A brilliant, endlessly fascinating work.
- David Denby, New Yorker
Kiarostami never completely spells things out, assuming audiences can think for themselves and appreciate all the film's subtleties and reverberations. Let's hope he's right.
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- Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
After years of working on photography, poetry and more experimental films, Abbas Kiarostami makes an engaging return to narrative cinema in a delicate, bittersweet comedy set in romantic Italy.
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- Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter
Juliette Binoche won the Best Actress prize in Cannes for her performance in this playful and provocative romantic drama from legendary Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami (TASTE OF CHERRY, THE WIND WILL CARRY US), his first feature made outside of Iran. Binoche plays a gallery owner living in a Tuscan village who attends a lecture by a British author (opera star William Shimell) on authenticity and fakery in art. Afterward, she invites him on a tour of the countryside, during which he is mistaken for her husband. They keep up the pretense and continue on their afternoon out, discussing love, life and art, and increasingly behaving like a long-married couple. But are they play-acting on a whim, or is there more to their seemingly new relationship than meets the eye?
Italy * Drama/Romance * 106 min. * Italian, French, English with English subtitles