Watching this video that recently went viral on social media, it’s a behind-the-scenes moment from the movie Certified Copy with actress Juliette Binoche and director Abbas Kiarostami. Binoche looking perplexed, listening to Kiarostami as he guides her to deliver a specific line to convey a particular meaning. Kiarostami instructs her not to say the line with anger, but with reproach and disappointment.
Binoche, who seems a bit frustrated, responds, “I don’t understand this Iranian bittersweet. How could one complain without anger?” Kiarostami explains that reproach has love and affection in it; a tendency toward reconciliation and returning, while anger has a tendency to lead to breakups.
Binoche won the Best Actress award at the 2010 Cannes Festival for this role.