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Now that we are ending 2010 and that during the past two months have been released in Spain two of the most interesting films of the year, I think the relevant point a couple of ideas.

The two films in question: Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010) and Uncle Boonmee remember their past lives (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul) share two important points: The two are almost boundless in terms of possible interpretations and both the idea of reincarnation, an aspect that explain from what was said by Carlos Losilla in Cahiers December 2010 on Uncle Boonma

"From that perspective, reincarnation is also a mirror, an image that is reproduced in another which in turn points to the first without being the same. And the ghosts are double of the living, which endure over time "

certified copy of a woman and a man, apparently unknown, begin seduced by a series conversations. At one point, an subtle shift and confusing (but excellent) in which, apparently, in reality it is a marriage which is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary as a reunion at the same place where it began, weaving a kind of simulacrum of the past. More or less this would summary, although the film leaves a way open for reading the pair, in fact, they just met and is pretending.

If we stick to the words of Losi, we can find in their palabas Weerasethakul's film about the interpretation of Kiarostami. Take the idea of \u200b\u200breincarnation and substitute for the original concept / copy that appears throughout the film, Kiarostami. In a way, we're talking about reincarnation when the couple tries to relive the past, failing in the attempt to transform it into a present more ominous and melancholy. Or using the words of Losi, we could say that the pair is the image that recalls the former without being the same. But the key and the sophistication of Certified Copy comes just as posed by debate about whether it is true that we are not the same, or if, conversely, are the same pair with a different perception, a perception affected by time and space (Apparently, man has always found away from his supposed son and his alleged wife). That is, if the original (the couple in the past) becomes a perfect copy or sinking in an attempt (the couple in the present).

If we go beyond the appointment of Losi, we can interpret the two couples (or even sculpture of lovers of the town square), the young and the old man, who the main characters Certified Copy is as different mirrors that evokes a past that they could be and a future that may be.

Here lies the importance of the two films in his mind when considering the open issues and force the viewer to a mental reconstruction of what is elided in order to understand everything as a whole. Coming