Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy To Be Distributed By IFC Films

It looks like, while Sony Pictures Classics made the first major deal, that IFC may have made the Cannes Film Festival’s biggest deal.

According to IndieWire, the distributor has bought the U.S. distribution rights to Abbas Kiarostami’s latest, Certified Copy.

The film stars Juliette Binoche and William Shimell, in Kiarostami’s usual character study style film, that follows two people on a date in Italy, who slowly discover that they have a must deeper past together. Copy has garnered a pretty heavy dose of critical praise, rivaling Mike Leigh’s latest, Another Year, for what seems to be the big contender for the film’s top prize.

This also leads me to wonder, is a Criterion release to be in this film’s future?

Kiarostami will be, this upcoming June, a two time member of the Collection (A Taste Of Cherry and the June 22 release Close-Up), and throw in the partnership between Criterion and IFC, and you have a pretty solid chance that this film may join that group. It’s critically beloved, most likely the main contender for the Palme d’Or, and is from a director already in the collection, so this may just be a matter of time.

Source: IndieWire