Like Someone in Love

- 2012
- France / Japan
- 1h 49min
- 12A
- Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast: Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Denden
- Language: Japanese
- UK release: 21 June 2013
Akiko (Takanashi) is a young Japanese student who also works as a prostitute. When her boyfriend Noriaki (Kase) takes one of her clients to be her grandfather, a subtle game of misunderstandings ensues. If not among Kiarostami's best films, it's beautiful, tender and subtle.
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Like Someone in Love


A subtly tender film from Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami
Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami seeks not so much layers of ambiguity as areas of it: pockets of his films contain mysteries that we know we'll never fathom. Yet often his work seems surprisingly transparent, simple in the minimalism of event, and the…
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