Like someone in love is a simple film on the surface a story about a young sociology student and parttime escort, akiko, who develops a relationship with a retired professor over a twoday period yet dig beyond the veneer and the film reveals its complex riches. Abbas kiarostamis tokyoset like someone in love is a strange, unfinished spectacle a minor work but well acted and made with. Filming was originally planned for april 2011, but had to be rescheduled due to the 2011 tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Anyone expecting the classical forms of plot and characterization in this film will be sadly disappointed. Abbas kiarostamis new film is a strange, unfinished spectacle whose ending simply looks amputated a missing reel effect. While it doesnt quite feel like a native japanese film, theres far. Her hair no longer tied up in a bun but falling wide at her shoulders, her feet bare, her legs no longer moving with girlish timidity but easing along in languid strides that show off their shapeliness. Playing out over two days in tokyo, it transfers the central enigma from the relationship between two characters to the narrative structure itself, transforming a seemingly simple story into something completely confounding. Like someone in love, by abbas kiarostami the new york times.
Like someone in love is a film production by frances mk2 group and japans eurospace. From the classic good guy versus bad boy dynamic of movies like titanic to modernday vampire lust in twilight, weve rounded up some of cinemas most. I love you, the 2007 boxoffice hit starring hilary swank and gerard butler. T he second stop on the ongoing abbas kiarostami world tour, like someone in love, plays out as a citymouse rejoinder to the rustic, openair daydream of certified copy, a snarl of thorny free jazz to that film s graceful aria. Love is the most sexually explicit movie to ever appear. There is a shot about a third of the way through like someone in love of a pretty, perky young lady emerging from an apartment bathroom a different woman. Like someone in love is a frenchjapanese drama film written and directed by iranian director abbas kiarostami, starring rin takanashi.
Like someone in love is possibly the most curious example, a japanese drama written and directed by an iranian filmmaker. Abrams and his cast revealed a few more star wars the rise of skywalker plot details at this years d23 expo, where a new teaser was released. In contrast, the shock we experience at this abrupt ending seems to tell us that. Read the full synopsis of the other love, 1947, directed by andre detoth, with barbara stanwyck, david niven, richard conte, at turner classic movies. Like someone in love has a story so simple it seems diaphanous. Like someone in love on dvd movie synopsis and info. The ending strikes a deliberately harsh, arrhythmic note that may puzzle and annoy many viewers. There is something like a plot unfolding in this film, but its best discovered cold. Manga adaptation about a tokyo magazine model who moves to rural japan starts out as a teen romance, but a sex crime halfway through, and how it is treated, leaves a sour taste in the mouth. Less concerned with all the familiar romcom plot points, someone great feels like a series of wellcrafted sketches stitched together into a film thats decidedly more about reveling in the. The filmmaker is interested, as ever, in shapeshifting roles. When akiko rin takanashi, a lovely tokyo student who moonlights as a call girl.
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In the films of abbas kiarostami, every detail counts. It has been selected to be screened in the main competition section at the 2012 cannes film festival. Akiko, a young and naive student who moonlights as an escort in tokyo, goes to meet a new client, the elderly takashi watanabe, a writer and translator, at his home. Like someone in love 2012 abbas kiarostami synopsis. When you love someone tells the story of a boy who tries to run away from his love, after realising that his memories are the only thing he still keeps from his past.
When akiko rin takanashi, a lovely tokyo student who moonlights as a call girl, is dispatched to a new client in the suburbs, she is surprised to find the shy and elderly takashi 81yearold stage actor tadashi okuno, a committed academic constantly distracted by workrelated phone calls. The film was eventually shot over eight weeks in october 2011. In like someone in love, especially, while making a film as an. The plot has something to do with satanic cults, but what you really need to know is that this movie was almost rated x. Young akiko rin takanashi is a young student, who works as a sex worker in japan. The tokyoset like someone in love extends the notions proffered in certified copy, giving them another context and considering another possible outcome.