Like Someone in Love
- Genre:
- Foreign, Drama
- Director:
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast:
- Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryō Kase, Denden
- Writers:
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
Synopsis
Fresh from the triumph of his Tuscany-set Certified
Copy (NYFF 2010), master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami travels even further
afield from his native Iran for this mysteriously beautiful romantic
drama filmed entirely in Japan. Like Someone in Love revolves around the
brief encounter between an elderly professor (the wonderful 81-year-old
stage actor Tadashi Okuno, here playing his first leading role in a
film) and a sociology student (Rin Takanashi) who moonlights as a
high-end escort. Dispatched to the old man by her boss—one of the
professor’s former students—the young woman finds her latest client less
interested in sex than in cooking her soup, talking, and playing old
Ella Fitzgerald records (like the one that gives the film its allusive
title). Eventually, night gives way to day and a tense standoff with the
student’s insanely jealous boyfriend (Ryō Kase); but as usual in
Kiarostami, nothing is quite as it appears on the surface. Are these
characters—who conjure in one another the specters of regret and roads
not taken—meeting by chance, or is it fate? Is this love, or merely
something like it?
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