JAPAN / FRANCE – 2012 – 109 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty-four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.

 

(Interview with director Abbas Kiarostami)
- THE GLOBE AND MAIL

"Few filmmakers know how to put you on your guard from the first frame as effectively as Abbas Kiarostami. " 
- FILM FREAK CENTRAL

"...[A]s usual in Kiarostami, nothing is quite as it appears on the surface." 
- EXAMINER

"Kiarostami’s apparent simplicity masks serious complexity. We are inspired to think deeply, on levels both conscious and subconscious." 
- THE TORONTO STAR

(Interview with director Abbas Kiarostami)
- THE TORONTO STAR

"A delicate pearl of a movie, LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE is ... a meditative dance along the ambiguous borders of truth and illusion." 
- THE GLOBE AND MAIL

"Kiarostami is expert at the gradual reveal, letting his characters just exist in the frame and steeping us in their relationships and histories." 
- NOW MAGAZINE

"This is the first of the great Iranian director’s features in which his characteristic intellectual rigour gets expressed in the form of sustained, visceral tension. While you’d be hard-pressed to call it a genre piece, the movie has the intense pressurization of a great suspense thriller." 
- THE GRID

"Here, translation, interruption, conversation mediums and the nature of swaying desire or opinion divide and connect Tokyo call girl and student Akiko (Rin Takanashi) and her elderly professor client, Takashi (Tadashi Okuno)." 
- EXCLAIM!

"Evoking the feeling of a dream that evolves into a nightmare over the course of a nice afternoon nap, Like Someone in Love is unlike anything movie theatres have seen in quite some time - a truly weird and often heavenly film." 
- BLOGTO

"Most films try to hook you at the first shot. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE is more akin to a novel which takes 50 pages to get into. Once you’re in, you don’t want to look away." 
- TORONTO FILM SCENE

"There’s no symbolism here. No pretension or ego. These are people. Flesh and blood human beings with all their faults and flaws on full display pouring out every last ounce of emotion they can because none of them ever know when they will get another chance. These are raw feelings undistilled." 
- DORK SHELF