Yui Kiyohara with Anne-Katrin Titze on Tadashi Okuno and Abbas Kiarostami: “I did cast Mr. Okuno because I saw Like Someone In Love and he was fantastic.”
“It’s missing a key” is the first sentence spoken by one of the musicians whose compositions will accompany Yui Kiyohara’s beautifully memorable Remembering Every Night, shot by Yukiko Iioka, stars Kumi Hyodo, Minami Ohba, and Ai Mikami with Guama Uchida, Shintaro Yuya, Mizuho Nojima, and Tadashi Okuno (star of Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love).
Sanae (Minami Ohba) with Mr. Takada (Tadashi Okuno)
Tama New Town is the setting, a housing complex built in 1971 as a Tokyo satellite city. This is where the film lets us stroll around and bike with its three female protagonists. Via these movements and the caring gaze the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Chizu (Kumi Hyodo) is 44 and recently lost her...
“It’s missing a key” is the first sentence spoken by one of the musicians whose compositions will accompany Yui Kiyohara’s beautifully memorable Remembering Every Night, shot by Yukiko Iioka, stars Kumi Hyodo, Minami Ohba, and Ai Mikami with Guama Uchida, Shintaro Yuya, Mizuho Nojima, and Tadashi Okuno (star of Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love).
Sanae (Minami Ohba) with Mr. Takada (Tadashi Okuno)
Tama New Town is the setting, a housing complex built in 1971 as a Tokyo satellite city. This is where the film lets us stroll around and bike with its three female protagonists. Via these movements and the caring gaze the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Chizu (Kumi Hyodo) is 44 and recently lost her...
- 9/12/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Yui Kiyohara’s Remembering Every Night shot by Yukiko Iioka stars Kumi Hyodo, Minami Ohba, and Ai Mikami with Guama Uchida, Shintaro Yuya, Mizuho Nojima, and Tadashi Okuno (star of Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love).
“It’s missing a key” is the first sentence spoken by one of the musicians whose compositions will accompany Kiyohara’s beautifully memorable Remembering Every Night. Tama New Town, a housing complex built in 1971 as a Tokyo satellite city, is where the film lets us stroll around and bike with its three female protagonists. Via these movements and the caring gaze the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
Chizu (Kumi Hyodo) is 44 and recently lost her job as a...
“It’s missing a key” is the first sentence spoken by one of the musicians whose compositions will accompany Kiyohara’s beautifully memorable Remembering Every Night. Tama New Town, a housing complex built in 1971 as a Tokyo satellite city, is where the film lets us stroll around and bike with its three female protagonists. Via these movements and the caring gaze the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
Chizu (Kumi Hyodo) is 44 and recently lost her job as a...
- 9/8/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Berlin Film Festival has revealed the 28 titles selected for its Forum strand and the 26 projects at the Forum Expanded platform.
In the Forum strand, documentaries stand alongside personal essay films, while the films and installations that make up the Forum Expanded program revolve around political and personal legacies.
The festival takes place Feb. 16-26.
Forum Titles
“Allensworth”
by James Benning
U.S.
“Anqa”
by Helin Çelik
Austria/Spain
“About Thirty”
by Martin Shanly | with Martin Shanly, Camila Dougall, Paul Dougall, Esmeralds Escalante, Maria Soldi
Argentina
“Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait”
by Luke Fowler | with Margaret Tait
U.K.
“The Bride”
by Myriam U. Birara | with Sandra Umulisa, Aline Amike, Daniel Gaga, Fabiola Mukasekuru, Beatrice Mukandayishimiye
Rwanda
“Cidade Rabat”
by Susana Nobre | with Raquel Castro, Paula Bárcia, Paula Só, Sara de Castro, Laura Afonso
Portugal/France
“De Facto”
by Selma Doborac | with Christoph Bach, Cornelius Obonya...
In the Forum strand, documentaries stand alongside personal essay films, while the films and installations that make up the Forum Expanded program revolve around political and personal legacies.
The festival takes place Feb. 16-26.
Forum Titles
“Allensworth”
by James Benning
U.S.
“Anqa”
by Helin Çelik
Austria/Spain
“About Thirty”
by Martin Shanly | with Martin Shanly, Camila Dougall, Paul Dougall, Esmeralds Escalante, Maria Soldi
Argentina
“Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait”
by Luke Fowler | with Margaret Tait
U.K.
“The Bride”
by Myriam U. Birara | with Sandra Umulisa, Aline Amike, Daniel Gaga, Fabiola Mukasekuru, Beatrice Mukandayishimiye
Rwanda
“Cidade Rabat”
by Susana Nobre | with Raquel Castro, Paula Bárcia, Paula Só, Sara de Castro, Laura Afonso
Portugal/France
“De Facto”
by Selma Doborac | with Christoph Bach, Cornelius Obonya...
- 1/16/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
When it comes to making films, like in any kind of work, one tends to become accustomed to a certain kind of routine and even though this reality may have a distinct comfort, it also holds the danger of creative standstill to some degree. If we take a look at the world of mainstream cinema with its calculated blockbusters and tentpole films, commercial success has, in many ways, become one of the key factors when it comes to follow a formula or a pattern in order to repeat said success. However, for filmmakers such as Abbas Kiarostami, who sadly passed away in 2016, becoming used to a formula must have been a terrible nightmare, considering he has repeatedly stated that every film he made felt new to him.
“Like Someone in Love” will be screened at Japan Society
Eventually, this statement may be especially true when it comes to “Like Someone in Love...
“Like Someone in Love” will be screened at Japan Society
Eventually, this statement may be especially true when it comes to “Like Someone in Love...
- 11/30/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Richard Peña on Abbas Kiarostami:"It was such a privilege to know him, and more of a pleasure. Simply one of the great artists of our time." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The last time I spoke with Abbas Kiarostami, who died on Monday, July 4, 2016 in Paris, was when he presented Like Someone In Love, starring Tadashi Okuno and Rin Takanashi at the New York Film Festival in 2012. The director of Ten, Certified Copy, Through The Olive Trees and the Cannes Palme d’Or winning Taste of Cherry also co-wrote Jafar Panahi's The White Balloon and Crimson Gold.
At the press conference for Like Someone In Love, moderated by Richard Peña, I commented to him how very much Yasujiro Ozu is present as absence in his film - through the grandmother, the neighbour, the people talked about and unseen. There is a mother with her two children in Halloween costumes,...
The last time I spoke with Abbas Kiarostami, who died on Monday, July 4, 2016 in Paris, was when he presented Like Someone In Love, starring Tadashi Okuno and Rin Takanashi at the New York Film Festival in 2012. The director of Ten, Certified Copy, Through The Olive Trees and the Cannes Palme d’Or winning Taste of Cherry also co-wrote Jafar Panahi's The White Balloon and Crimson Gold.
At the press conference for Like Someone In Love, moderated by Richard Peña, I commented to him how very much Yasujiro Ozu is present as absence in his film - through the grandmother, the neighbour, the people talked about and unseen. There is a mother with her two children in Halloween costumes,...
- 7/5/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 20, 2014
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Rin Takanashi shines in Like Someone in Love.
Iran’s Abbas Kiarostami (Certified Copy) has spent his movie career exploring the tiny spaces that separate illusion from reality and the simulated from the authentic.
At first glance, his sly 2012 drama Like Someone in Love, which finds the filmmaker in Tokyo, may appear to be among Kiarostami’s most straightforward films. Yet with this simple story of the growing bond between a young part-time call girl (Rin Takanashi) and a grandfatherly client (Tadashi Okuno), Kiarostami has constructed an enigmatic but crystalline investigation of affection and desire as complex as his masterful Close-up and Certified Copy in its engagement with the workings of the mercurial human heart.
Like Someone in Love was released to theaters around the world in 2012 and 2013 following its premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Presented in Japanese with English subtitles,...
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Rin Takanashi shines in Like Someone in Love.
Iran’s Abbas Kiarostami (Certified Copy) has spent his movie career exploring the tiny spaces that separate illusion from reality and the simulated from the authentic.
At first glance, his sly 2012 drama Like Someone in Love, which finds the filmmaker in Tokyo, may appear to be among Kiarostami’s most straightforward films. Yet with this simple story of the growing bond between a young part-time call girl (Rin Takanashi) and a grandfatherly client (Tadashi Okuno), Kiarostami has constructed an enigmatic but crystalline investigation of affection and desire as complex as his masterful Close-up and Certified Copy in its engagement with the workings of the mercurial human heart.
Like Someone in Love was released to theaters around the world in 2012 and 2013 following its premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Presented in Japanese with English subtitles,...
- 2/24/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Directing84% Acting82% Story71% Cinematography78%Thumbs UpIntriguing characters.Beautiful cinematography.Thumbs DownSlow pace.Minimalist storyline. 76%Overall Score Reader Rating: (1 Vote)87%Whatever Will Be, Will Be
A young Japanese student and part-time call-girl gets in a pickle when her fiancé, Noriaki ( Ryo Kase, whom I’m a big fan of ), starts to suspect the worst. He’s starting to go mad with rage and is becoming more and more possessive… he’s now at the point where he wants to know precisely in which establishment his girl is at every moment. Not only that, but he’ll make her walk to the nearest bathroom and count the number of tiles between the bathroom entrance and the toilet bowl. Just in case she’s lying.
But, the call-girl in question, Akiko or Aki for short ( Rin Takanashi ), is anything but your typical street worker. She’s shy, reclusive, even hesitant to take on new clients.
A young Japanese student and part-time call-girl gets in a pickle when her fiancé, Noriaki ( Ryo Kase, whom I’m a big fan of ), starts to suspect the worst. He’s starting to go mad with rage and is becoming more and more possessive… he’s now at the point where he wants to know precisely in which establishment his girl is at every moment. Not only that, but he’ll make her walk to the nearest bathroom and count the number of tiles between the bathroom entrance and the toilet bowl. Just in case she’s lying.
But, the call-girl in question, Akiko or Aki for short ( Rin Takanashi ), is anything but your typical street worker. She’s shy, reclusive, even hesitant to take on new clients.
- 2/10/2014
- by The0racle
- AsianMoviePulse
World War Z | Before Midnight | Spike Island | Fire In The Night | Like Someone In Love | Snitch | I Am Nasrine | The Seasoning House | Shun Li and The Poet | Black Rock | I Am Breathing | A Haunted House
World War Z (15)
(Marc Forster, 2013, Us/Mal) Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale. 116 mins
In the end, the much-reported delays, reshoots and overspend have at least resulted in a watchable disaster epic, even if this brings little to the zombie apocalypse party save for a huge guest list. Forster's film finds Pitt pitted against insect-like hordes of the sprinting dead, as his Un agent trots round the globe trying to trace the source of the epidemic, save his family and avoid getting chomped. Mild spoiler alert: blame Wales.
Before Midnight (15)
(Richard Linklater, 2013, Us) Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Walter Lassally. 109 mins
A satisfying return for the comfortable screen couple, now together but burdened by history,...
World War Z (15)
(Marc Forster, 2013, Us/Mal) Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale. 116 mins
In the end, the much-reported delays, reshoots and overspend have at least resulted in a watchable disaster epic, even if this brings little to the zombie apocalypse party save for a huge guest list. Forster's film finds Pitt pitted against insect-like hordes of the sprinting dead, as his Un agent trots round the globe trying to trace the source of the epidemic, save his family and avoid getting chomped. Mild spoiler alert: blame Wales.
Before Midnight (15)
(Richard Linklater, 2013, Us) Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Walter Lassally. 109 mins
A satisfying return for the comfortable screen couple, now together but burdened by history,...
- 6/22/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Abbas Kiarostami's Tokyo-set Like Someone in Love is a strange, unfinished spectacle – a minor work but well acted and made with eerily deliberate poise
Abbas Kiarostami's new film is a strange, unfinished spectacle whose ending simply looks amputated – a "missing reel" effect. It's the second time I have seen it since its premiere at Cannes last year, and I was by turns intrigued, startled and sceptical in exactly the same way, although I have to concede its immersive brilliance, especially in its first two scenes. A film-maker such as Kiarostami deserves many considerations, and one of them is a repeat viewing, though a lesser director might be suspected of just having thought of a great beginning and middle of a conventional story, but failed to come up with an ending.
Rin Takanashi is Akiko, a beautiful young student working as an escort; Tadashi Okuno is a lonely, elderly academic,...
Abbas Kiarostami's new film is a strange, unfinished spectacle whose ending simply looks amputated – a "missing reel" effect. It's the second time I have seen it since its premiere at Cannes last year, and I was by turns intrigued, startled and sceptical in exactly the same way, although I have to concede its immersive brilliance, especially in its first two scenes. A film-maker such as Kiarostami deserves many considerations, and one of them is a repeat viewing, though a lesser director might be suspected of just having thought of a great beginning and middle of a conventional story, but failed to come up with an ending.
Rin Takanashi is Akiko, a beautiful young student working as an escort; Tadashi Okuno is a lonely, elderly academic,...
- 6/21/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ Acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's latest film, Like Someone in Love (2012), may be set and shot in Japan but it contains many of the auteur's trademarks: long, single takes, conversational scenes in cars and images reflected in glass and mirrors. Most of Tokyo's cityscape is framed through a car's windscreen. Akiko (Rin Takanashi) is a young, high-class escort studying sociology at a local university. The film opens in a bar where she is trying to convince her boss not to make her work that night - her grandmother has come to visit her, she tells him. But he insists pointing out that the client is an important man.
Akiko sets off on an hour-long journey across Tokyo, the city's vibrant streets reflected in the car's windscreen, passing by the station where her grandmother has arranged to meet her. Akiko can see her patiently waiting beside the designated statue and,...
Akiko sets off on an hour-long journey across Tokyo, the city's vibrant streets reflected in the car's windscreen, passing by the station where her grandmother has arranged to meet her. Akiko can see her patiently waiting beside the designated statue and,...
- 6/18/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Though cinephiles across the world are seeking out all of the In Competition films from this years Cannes Film Festival, it’s a picture from last year’s event that has finally made it’s way to the UK, and given the absorbing nature of this delicately crafted relationship drama, Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love is certainly worthy of it’s long-awaited theatrical release.
Set in Tokyo, we delve into the life of young student Akiko (Rin Takanashi), who, in a bid to make some extra cash on the side, has taken up prostitution. Though wanting to met her grandmother one evening, her boss has forced her to meet an important client, as she heads to the humble abode of the ageing author Takashi Watanabe (Tadashi Okuno). Expecting her typical custom, instead the widower merely wants a companion and someone to talk to, as the pair strike up the unlikeliest of friendships.
Set in Tokyo, we delve into the life of young student Akiko (Rin Takanashi), who, in a bid to make some extra cash on the side, has taken up prostitution. Though wanting to met her grandmother one evening, her boss has forced her to meet an important client, as she heads to the humble abode of the ageing author Takashi Watanabe (Tadashi Okuno). Expecting her typical custom, instead the widower merely wants a companion and someone to talk to, as the pair strike up the unlikeliest of friendships.
- 6/17/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Title: Like Someone in Love Director: Abbas Kiarostami Starring: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryo Kase. The internationally acclaimed Iranian film-maker, Abbas Kiarostami, has decided to shoot his latest movie in Japan. But the Nipponic experiment seems to have turned in an epic fail. The story is very straightforward: Akiko, a Tokyo student in her twenties, who works as call girl, is dispatched to a new client, the shy and elderly Takashi. Between the two, a chaste grandfather-granddaughter relationship will develop throughout the entire film. But their friendship will find have to deal with the violent reaction of Akiko’s possessive boyfriend. The problem of the movie is that the excess of introspection [ Read More ]
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- 4/17/2013
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Like Someone in Love
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
France, Japan, 2012
Abbas Kiarostami continues to direct away from, but still in the spirit of Iran with his 2012 effort Like Someone in Love. In a film that is visually different but thematically similar to his Iranian-language masterpiece Taste of Cherry, Kiarostami ruminates on obsessive love and, akin to his 2010 film Certified Copy, the art of reproduction.
Akiko (Rin Takanashi) is a young prostitute (her profession, never stated, is constantly implied). She’s forced into an encounter with Takashi (Tadashi Okuno), a lonely, lively professor and the two unexpectedly bond, much to the chagrin of Akiko’s infatuated boyfriend, Noriaki (Ryo Kase).
While Like Someone in Love isn’t as cinematically playful as Certified Copy, it still finds Kiarostami dipping into a similar bag of tricks and is anything but your standard-fare drama. Made up of only a small handful of long scenes,...
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
France, Japan, 2012
Abbas Kiarostami continues to direct away from, but still in the spirit of Iran with his 2012 effort Like Someone in Love. In a film that is visually different but thematically similar to his Iranian-language masterpiece Taste of Cherry, Kiarostami ruminates on obsessive love and, akin to his 2010 film Certified Copy, the art of reproduction.
Akiko (Rin Takanashi) is a young prostitute (her profession, never stated, is constantly implied). She’s forced into an encounter with Takashi (Tadashi Okuno), a lonely, lively professor and the two unexpectedly bond, much to the chagrin of Akiko’s infatuated boyfriend, Noriaki (Ryo Kase).
While Like Someone in Love isn’t as cinematically playful as Certified Copy, it still finds Kiarostami dipping into a similar bag of tricks and is anything but your standard-fare drama. Made up of only a small handful of long scenes,...
- 3/25/2013
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
A love triangle and mistaken identities provide what little drama there is in Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love, a stripped-down story of a young prostitute who spends two days connecting with an older client. Akiki (Rin Takanashi) is a college student who works evenings as a call girl out of a Tokyo bar. Her controlling boyfriend Noriaki (Ryo Kase) is unaware of her moonlighting which is for the best considering his hot temper. She wants to visit her grandmother but instead goes on a “date” that her pimp has set up. Her client turns out to be retired sociology professor Takashi (Tadashi Okuno), who taught for 30 years at the school she currently attends. He wants to cook her a shrimp dinner. She just wants to get the date over with. He’s more interested in companionship than sex. She falls asleep. The next morning he drives...
- 3/16/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Like Someone in Love
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Written by Abbas Kiarostami
France and Japan, 2012
The three main characters of Like Someone in Love are introverted and desperate for connection, yet that desperation is what separates them so violently from the world around them. A college student, a volatile mechanic, and a kindly widower would seem to have nothing in common, but a series of events forces them together, revealing how lonely they are and how unable they are to change their circumstances no matter how hard they try. This new film from Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami is typically patient, and builds surprisingly powerful tension throughout as the distance between this trio, this gulf, becomes so great as to consume them.
Rin Takanashi is Akiko, a young woman struggling to get by at college in Tokyo. As the story unfolds, it’s revealed that, to supplement her income, Akiko moonlights as a prostitute,...
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Written by Abbas Kiarostami
France and Japan, 2012
The three main characters of Like Someone in Love are introverted and desperate for connection, yet that desperation is what separates them so violently from the world around them. A college student, a volatile mechanic, and a kindly widower would seem to have nothing in common, but a series of events forces them together, revealing how lonely they are and how unable they are to change their circumstances no matter how hard they try. This new film from Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami is typically patient, and builds surprisingly powerful tension throughout as the distance between this trio, this gulf, becomes so great as to consume them.
Rin Takanashi is Akiko, a young woman struggling to get by at college in Tokyo. As the story unfolds, it’s revealed that, to supplement her income, Akiko moonlights as a prostitute,...
- 3/15/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Chicago – Minor Abbas Kiarostami is still a reason for celebration. While the internationally acclaimed auteur’s latest work, “Like Someone in Love,” opening tomorrow at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, is a bit more frustrating than his best films (“Certified Copy,” “The Wind Will Carry Us”), it still contains such confident, intriguing filmmaking that it merits consideration for your movie dollar this weekend.
An Asian cousin to the European “Certified Copy,” “Like Someone in Love” often begs for similar degrees of interpretation and, once again, it feels like Kiarostami is purposefully trying to make a specific reading of the film impossible, asking viewers to become engrossed in theme more than plot. His reliance on long takes, natural lighting, crowd noise, and other trademarks of his style lend an air of importance to everything, as if we should be asking ourselves “what this means,” when the answer may mean...
Chicago – Minor Abbas Kiarostami is still a reason for celebration. While the internationally acclaimed auteur’s latest work, “Like Someone in Love,” opening tomorrow at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, is a bit more frustrating than his best films (“Certified Copy,” “The Wind Will Carry Us”), it still contains such confident, intriguing filmmaking that it merits consideration for your movie dollar this weekend.
An Asian cousin to the European “Certified Copy,” “Like Someone in Love” often begs for similar degrees of interpretation and, once again, it feels like Kiarostami is purposefully trying to make a specific reading of the film impossible, asking viewers to become engrossed in theme more than plot. His reliance on long takes, natural lighting, crowd noise, and other trademarks of his style lend an air of importance to everything, as if we should be asking ourselves “what this means,” when the answer may mean...
- 3/1/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Editor’s Note: This review originally ran during the 2012 Nyff, but we’re re-running it now as the film opens in limited theatrical release. It’s impossible to understand who a person truly is upon first meeting them. Impressions can be made, based on the context of the meeting, but you can never know the true self that lies beneath the surface. In Abbas Kiarostami’s masterful Like Someone In Love, two very different people meet by chance, but within a 24-hour period, they discover more about each other and about themselves than either of them could have possibly fathomed. Kiarostami takes what would seem like a simple character study and, with his astute direction, morphs it into an incredibly well-executed work of art that is imbued with a palpable sense of unease. These two people are Akiko (Rin Takanashi) and Takashi (Tadashi Okuno). Akiko is studying biology in college and conflicted over whether or not to...
- 2/15/2013
- by Caitlin Hughes
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Like Someone in Love: Filmmaker Kiarostami has created a 'lovely' drama The 73-year-old, Iranian-born filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami is among the freshest and most energetic directors working today. His ideas always intrigue without wandering aimlessly; his screenwriting is sparse, but always rings true; his execution is stylistic and beautiful. Kiarostami has worked on shorts, documentaries, and narrative features that deal with a wide range of topics, from students' homework (in Homework) to Iran's sociopolitical landscape. (Pictured above: Actress Rin Takanashi in the Tokyo-set Like Someone in Love, written and directed by Kiarostami.) His new effort opens in New York and L.A. on Friday; the film can be considered a solid addition to his canon. Like Someone in Love leaves audiences with the sense of having watched a story deliberately unfinished. The film tackles a similar topic to the one found in the director's Tuscany-set movie Certified Copy, starring Juliette Binoche...
- 2/15/2013
- by Tim Cogshell
- Alt Film Guide
The Things I Do Astound Me: Kiarostami Does Tokyo
Following his Tuscany set 2010 success, Certified Copy, Abbas Kiarostami extends his global presence outside of Iran with Like Someone In Love, a confoundingly calibrated Tokyo exercise, so named for the jazz standard, the vocal talents of Ella Fitzgerald utilized here. Despite its location, Kiarostami’s signature motifs and visual compositions abound in this tale of mistaken identities, miscommunication, and notions of unrequited desirous affections. However, what begins as an intriguing pursuit concerning the nature of love and artifice slowly gives way to a tension filled atmosphere of foreboding, culminating in an unsatisfying and abrupt finale.
Beginning in a noisy bar, we hear a plaintive voice in the midst of a painstaking conversation. As our eyes adjust to the figures before us, we realize the voice is coming from off screen, and belongs to the pouty and passive Akiko (Rin Takanashi). She...
Following his Tuscany set 2010 success, Certified Copy, Abbas Kiarostami extends his global presence outside of Iran with Like Someone In Love, a confoundingly calibrated Tokyo exercise, so named for the jazz standard, the vocal talents of Ella Fitzgerald utilized here. Despite its location, Kiarostami’s signature motifs and visual compositions abound in this tale of mistaken identities, miscommunication, and notions of unrequited desirous affections. However, what begins as an intriguing pursuit concerning the nature of love and artifice slowly gives way to a tension filled atmosphere of foreboding, culminating in an unsatisfying and abrupt finale.
Beginning in a noisy bar, we hear a plaintive voice in the midst of a painstaking conversation. As our eyes adjust to the figures before us, we realize the voice is coming from off screen, and belongs to the pouty and passive Akiko (Rin Takanashi). She...
- 2/14/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
There's a lot of driving and talking in "Like Someone in Love," Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's latest production, but beyond that's only the surface. Following last year's Tuscany-set "Certified Copy," the new movie -- which premiered in competition at Cannes last May and screens at the New York Film Festival this week -- finds the director in the vastly different turf of Tokyo with an all-Japanese cast. But even far away from home, Kiarostami is still Kiarostami. [Editor's Note: This interview originally ran during last year's New York Film Festival where "Like Someone in Love" screened. IFC Films opens the drama this Friday in select theaters.] The trim story follows young prostitute Akiko (Rin Takanashi) on assignment to visit retired academic Takashi (Tadashi Okuno). The next morning, Takashi assumes a parental role as he carts the woman around town, helps her evade her moody fiancé (Ryo Kase), and...
- 2/14/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Like Someone in Love
Written by Abbas Kiarostami
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
France/Japan, 2012
Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love wastes little time in developing its singular strangeness. As a follow-up to Certified Copy, this film doesn’t quite inhibit the unique formal prowess of said predecessor, but functions as a deliberately puzzling waltz of a film in its own right. We’re casually thrown into Kiarostami’s zone of mistaken identities and skewed realities during the film’s opening shot: we’re placed in a crowded bar and made privy to a story being told from the voice of a woman we cannot see. It’s in this instance that the director’s unwavering aura of mystery is set in motion.
The construct is Kiarostami’s own brand of playfulness, unwinding at such a straightforward and leisurely pace as to consistently call into question what the director is actually up to here.
Written by Abbas Kiarostami
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
France/Japan, 2012
Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love wastes little time in developing its singular strangeness. As a follow-up to Certified Copy, this film doesn’t quite inhibit the unique formal prowess of said predecessor, but functions as a deliberately puzzling waltz of a film in its own right. We’re casually thrown into Kiarostami’s zone of mistaken identities and skewed realities during the film’s opening shot: we’re placed in a crowded bar and made privy to a story being told from the voice of a woman we cannot see. It’s in this instance that the director’s unwavering aura of mystery is set in motion.
The construct is Kiarostami’s own brand of playfulness, unwinding at such a straightforward and leisurely pace as to consistently call into question what the director is actually up to here.
- 2/13/2013
- by Ty Landis
- SoundOnSight
Like the yearning Jimmy Van Huesen/Johnny Burke torch song that lends it its title, Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love is a sly, teasing riff on the heart's irrational stirrings. But the film's true spirit is even better encapsulated by Training a Parrot, an early-20th-century painting by the Japanese artist Chiyoji Yazaki that hangs on the living-room wall in the home of Takashi (Tadashi Okuno), a retired professor who lives a quiet existence of books and seemingly little human contact.
Early in the film, Takashi's solitary routine is interrupted by the arrival of Akiko (Rin Takanashi), a Tokyo undergraduate who moonlights as a high-end call girl. In the painting, a young woman in a kimono is seen teaching an attentive parrot to speak—or perhaps, as...
Early in the film, Takashi's solitary routine is interrupted by the arrival of Akiko (Rin Takanashi), a Tokyo undergraduate who moonlights as a high-end call girl. In the painting, a young woman in a kimono is seen teaching an attentive parrot to speak—or perhaps, as...
- 2/13/2013
- Village Voice
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's latest work, "Like Someone in Love," takes place in and around Tokyo -- a far cry from the director's hometown of Tehran. The story follows the unconventional love triangle of Akiko, a young student and escort who, estranged from her family and reluctantly engaged to a jealous suitor, develops a connection with a much older, widowed professor named Takashi. Hardly a romance though the title might suggest, the film is a slow-moving study of the nebulous relationships endemic to Kiarostami's imagination. Distanced family members, dysfunctional lovers and role-playing strangers collide in cinematic moments that, pieced together, represent an artfully shot 24-hour period of Akiko's life.
"Like Someone in Love" is similar to "Certified Copy," Kiarostami's French-language drama set in the Italian country side. Both films showcase the writer and director's essential elements -- stark minimalism, melodic dialogue, and sweeping camera shots. The plot of the...
"Like Someone in Love" is similar to "Certified Copy," Kiarostami's French-language drama set in the Italian country side. Both films showcase the writer and director's essential elements -- stark minimalism, melodic dialogue, and sweeping camera shots. The plot of the...
- 2/12/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
One our our 10 Films Worth Tracking Down In Theaters In February, Abbas Kiarostami's "Like Someone In Love" is a piece of intelligent cinema, which given the options currently at the multiplex, is a rarity. So if you're looking for something with a bit more substance this month, this would be a good option. And with the movie set to open in limited release soon, we've got an exclusive clip from the movie to give you a little look at what the Iranian filmmaker has cooked up this time around. Largely a two-hander, the film centers on Rin Takanashi and Tadashi Okuno, the former a young escort and the latter an elderly professor, with the pair striking up an usual friendship that takes them to unexpected places over a couple of days. In this scene, we see a few moments from their initial meeting at his apartment as they both...
- 2/11/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Title: Like Someone in Love Director: Abbas Kiarostami Starring: Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase, Tadashi Okuno Jean-Luc Godard once said that cinema ends with Abbas Kiarostami. This is not entirely off-base. Kiarostami represents the other in film, in the sense that his style is somehow abstract, enigmatic, and narratively simple. True, as the cliche goes, his films are not for everyone, yet I still can’t help but find them to be vitally important for any cinephile. Certified Copy was something that I loved instantly for its unique vision, philosophical inquiry, and distinctly compassionate vision of the human condition. His newest film, Like Someone in Love, goes even further but dwells in the same [ Read More ]
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- 2/10/2013
- by justin
- ShockYa
Like Someone in Love Trailer. Abbas Kiarostami‘s Like Someone in Love (2012) movie trailer stars Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase, Denden, Tadashi Okuno, and Ryota Nakanishi. Like Someone in Love‘s plot synopsis: “Fresh from the triumph of his Tuscany-set Certified Copy (Nyff 2010), master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami travels even further afield from his [...]
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- 2/5/2013
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
After turning heads and dividing opinions with his most recent feature, Certified Copy, maker of challenging though rewarding films Abbas Kiarostami is back with a new project, Like Someone In Love. This time around, the Iranian director is moving his focus to Tokyo, where he tells the tale of a confused young woman who develops a sort of friendship with an elderly college professor—a friendship which may or may not help her get her life on a better path, depending on your perspective. If that sounds vague, that’s because I’ve already caught this one when it was touring the festival circuit last year, and I can confirm that it is indeed the sort of film that raises more questions than it provides answers, much like Certified Copy. Though it does it by telling a story that’s more grounded in reality than that film. Seeing as the specifics of what this film is about...
- 2/5/2013
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has been a strong presence on the international film stage for over 30 years, with many of his features, including 2010′s Certified Copy, garnering a high amount of critical acclaim and earning him awards as prestigious as the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. Thus, news of his films are always treated with excitement, and his newest feature, titled Like Someone In Love, has been anticipated by many fans of cinema. Kiarostami once again takes on writing and directing duties, and this time uses Japanese as the primary spoken language, working with a cast that includes Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase, and Tadashi Okuno. An American trailer for the feature has now been released, and can be seen below.
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- 2/4/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
"Whatever will be, will be." Sundance Selects has finally debuted an official Us trailer for the new film from Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, titled Like Someone in Love. This one is set in Tokyo, Japan and is a charming little awkward, quirky love story between a call girl, played by Rin Takanashi, and an elderly man named Watanabe Takashi, played by Tadashi Okuno. The film played at the Cannes (my review) and Toronto Film Festivals, and is a superb character study of two people from opposite ends. The trailer doesn't give away too much, but it does setup the characters and story. They use such beautiful music too, perfect. Watch the official Us trailer for Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love, originally from Apple: Fresh from the triumph of his Tuscany-set Certified Copy, master Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami travels even further afield from his native Iran for this mysteriously...
- 2/4/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Title: Like Someone In Love Sundance Selects Director: Abbas Kiarostami Screenwriter: Abbas Kiarostami Cast: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryo Kase, Denden, Mihoko Suzuki, Kaneko Kubota, Hiroyuki Kishi, Reiko Mori, Kouichi Ohori, Tomoaki Tatsumi, Seina Kasugai Screened at: SoHo House, NYC, 1/28/13 Opens: February 15, 2013 Sometimes a gentleman caller will hire a girl from an escort service just to talk, believe it or not, particularly if the caller is in his eighties as is one Takashi—whose role is performed by Tadashi Okuno–heretofore known mostly for his parts in TV movies. But don’t expect the story to be at all commercial like “Klute” or “Pretty Woman” since, after all, the writer-director [ Read More ]
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- 1/29/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Akiko (Rin Takanashi) is a quiet sociology student who moonlights as a coquettish call girl. Noriaki (Ryo Kase) is her possessive (and oblivious) would-be fiance, a brash auto-mechanic. Takeshi (Tadashi Okuno) is her doting client, an elderly sociology professor/academic translator. This is our unlikely love triangle, and their character descriptions imply the story being told. Akiko arrives somewhat reluctantly at Takeshi's apartment one night, after a passive-aggressive argument with her pimp (Denden) and a soul-crushing series of voicemails from her grandmother. Takeshi is clearly smitten, but does not seem interested in sex. Instead he wants her to have dinner with him, revealing a shrimp broth dish from her hometown that he has spent all day preparing. Akiko rejects the old man's pleasantries and removes her clothes on the way to his bedroom. After one of those tasteful old-fashioned fade-to-blacks that could mean just about anything (I imagine the platonic...
- 10/24/2012
- QuietEarth.us
★★☆☆☆ Following up on the Cannes success of his previous film - the award-winning, Juliette Binoche-starring Certified Copy (2010) - Iranian writer and director Abbas Kiarostami returns to the festival fray this year with Like Someone in Love (2012), his first film made in the sprawling Japanese capital of Tokyo. Featuring a largely unknown all-Japanese cast, Kiarostami's latest is a languid, hushed affair, exploring the burgeoning relationship between young student/part-time escort Akiko (Rin Takanashi) and an elderly, grandfatherly client Takashi (Tadashi Okuno), with whom she forms an unlikely connection.
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- 10/16/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
It was not until the very close of Michael Haneke’s laurel-laden Amour that I came to a pleasantly odd realization. Without any foresight, I had managed to stumble upon the perfect trans-generational triple feature—perhaps not just at the New York Film Festival, but in the grander scheme as well. At first blush, the Tokyo-set Like Someone in Love, New York-based Frances Ha, and the claustrophobic Parisian quarters of Amour have as much in common as, well, an Eastern social order, a misguided American woman, and a shackled octogenarian couple could. But a closer look reveals a glaringly common thread. Like Someone in Love, Frances Ha, and Amour all deal with the most important relationships at a given time in their characters’ lives, with each film sure to resonate most with a particular age bracket.
Similar to 2010’s Certified Copy, Like Someone in Love sees the Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami...
Similar to 2010’s Certified Copy, Like Someone in Love sees the Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami...
- 10/11/2012
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
There's a lot of driving and talking in "Like Someone in Love," Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's latest production, but beyond that's only the surface. Following last year's Tuscany-set "Certified Copy," the new movie -- which premiered in competition at Cannes last May and screens at the New York Film Festival this week -- finds the director in the vastly different turf of Tokyo with an all-Japanese cast. But even far away from home, Kiarostami is still Kiarostami. The trim story follows young prostitute Akiko (Rin Takanashi) on assignment to visit retired academic Takashi (Tadashi Okuno). The next morning, Takashi assumes a parental role as he carts the woman around town, helps her evade her moody fiancé (Ryo Kase), and discusses his life philosophies. The movie is a fascinating mystery enacted with a deep awareness of camera movement, sound design and performances. In the U.S. for Nyff, promoting a...
- 10/8/2012
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
In the third of our reports from the 50th New York Film Festival, Like Someone In Love director Abbas Kiarostami offers glimpses of truth and speaks about his reluctant star, Something In The Air helmer Olivier Assayas salutes political youth and poetic lightness, while Passion director Brian De Palma explains how to make a film without even trying.
Like Someone In Love
A central figure in Kiarostami's character study is a retired professor (Tadashi Okuno), the client of a young woman Akiko (Rin Takanashi), who finances her sociology studies by selling her body. The director cracks open the universe of Yasujiro Ozu, which stays as a point of reference, though not in clumsy reverence, with low static shots or trains rolling by in the distance.
Anne-Katrin Titze: I like very much how Ozu is present as absence in your film - through the grandmother, the neighbour, the...
Like Someone In Love
A central figure in Kiarostami's character study is a retired professor (Tadashi Okuno), the client of a young woman Akiko (Rin Takanashi), who finances her sociology studies by selling her body. The director cracks open the universe of Yasujiro Ozu, which stays as a point of reference, though not in clumsy reverence, with low static shots or trains rolling by in the distance.
Anne-Katrin Titze: I like very much how Ozu is present as absence in your film - through the grandmother, the neighbour, the...
- 10/8/2012
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
From Palme d’Or winner “Amour” to the latest offerings from some of the biggest names of world cinema such as Alain Resnais, Abbas Kiarostami, Bernando Bertoluci, Manoel de Oliveira , Brillante Mendoza, Ken Loach, Jacques Audiard, 14th Mumbai Film Festival has a lot to offer to the filmbuffs.
The festival offers an exciting lineup of more than two hundred films, spread over about a dozen screen and seven days! To help our readers decide we’ve picked up the most talked about films from festival circuit.
14th Mff runs from October 18th-25th, 2012 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa), and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues.
To get delegate pass for the festival, you can register here:
1) Beast of the Southern Wild
Dir.: Benh Zeitlin (USA/ 2012 /Col./ 92’)
Section: International Competition for...
The festival offers an exciting lineup of more than two hundred films, spread over about a dozen screen and seven days! To help our readers decide we’ve picked up the most talked about films from festival circuit.
14th Mff runs from October 18th-25th, 2012 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa), and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues.
To get delegate pass for the festival, you can register here:
1) Beast of the Southern Wild
Dir.: Benh Zeitlin (USA/ 2012 /Col./ 92’)
Section: International Competition for...
- 9/27/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Like Someone in Love
Written by Abbas Kiarostami
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
France/Japan, 2012
Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love wastes little time in developing its singular strangeness. As a follow-up to Certified Copy, this film doesn’t quite inhibit the unique formal prowess of said predecessor, but functions as a deliberately puzzling waltz of a film in its own right. We’re casually thrown into Kiarostami’s zone of mistaken identities and skewed realities during the film’s opening shot: We’re placed in a crowded bar and made privy to a story being told from the voice of a woman we cannot see. It’s in this instance that the director’s unwavering aura of mystery is set in motion.
The construct is Kiarostami’s own brand of playfulness, unwinding at such a straightforward and leisurely pace as to consistently call into question what the director is actually up to here.
Written by Abbas Kiarostami
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
France/Japan, 2012
Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love wastes little time in developing its singular strangeness. As a follow-up to Certified Copy, this film doesn’t quite inhibit the unique formal prowess of said predecessor, but functions as a deliberately puzzling waltz of a film in its own right. We’re casually thrown into Kiarostami’s zone of mistaken identities and skewed realities during the film’s opening shot: We’re placed in a crowded bar and made privy to a story being told from the voice of a woman we cannot see. It’s in this instance that the director’s unwavering aura of mystery is set in motion.
The construct is Kiarostami’s own brand of playfulness, unwinding at such a straightforward and leisurely pace as to consistently call into question what the director is actually up to here.
- 9/11/2012
- by Ty Landis
- SoundOnSight
In Certified Copy, Abbas Kiarostami explored two people casually discussing their lives, revealing a surprising amount of information about themselves. The same format is taken here as Akiko (Rin Takanashi), a working girl who’s studying in Japan, is sent on an engagement with Watanabe (Tadashi Okuno), a former professor. The film begins in a bar with Akiko off screen on the phone talking to her boyfriend Noriaki (Ryo Kase), who’s concerned and curious about what’s going on with her. Slowly we see Hikoshi step into the picture, her booker, who spends the next ten minutes talking her into taking the engagement. What this film, like Certified Copy, does so well is in its ability to hold your attention for long periods of time while the setting and camera barely change. It’s engaging even when all that’s occurring on screen is interesting dialogue between two (and in some cases three) characters. Scenes...
- 9/10/2012
- by Andrew Robinson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Cannes romance Like Someone in Love helmed by Abbas Kiarostami goes to Sundance Selects The MK2 and Eurospace Production made its world premiere in competition at Cannes and is scripted by Certified Copy's Kiarostami. Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryo Kase star in the Kenzo Horikoshi and Nathanaël Karmitz-produced Palme d'Or-nominated film which tells of an old man and young woman who meet in Tokyo. Experienced filmmaker Kiarostami's previous helming credits include Tickets, Ten and The Wind Will Carry Us. IFC Films/Sundance Selects also recently acquired On the Road helmed by Walter Salles, starring Tom Sturridge...
- 5/29/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Cannes romance Like Someone in Love helmed by Abbas Kiarostami goes to Sundance Selects The MK2 and Eurospace Production made its world premiere in competition at Cannes and is scripted by Certified Copy's Kiarostami. Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryo Kase star in the Kenzo Horikoshi and Nathanaël Karmitz-produced Palme d'Or-nominated film which tells of an old man and young woman who meet in Tokyo. Experienced filmmaker Kiarostami's previous helming credits include Tickets, Ten and The Wind Will Carry Us. IFC Films/Sundance Selects also recently acquired On the Road helmed by Walter Salles, starring Tom Sturridge...
- 5/29/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Unable to film in his native Iran, Abbas Kiarostami now has to shoot his enigmatic films abroad. Does it matter that Cannes audiences found his new work exasperating?
It's hard to spot Abbas Kiarostami amid the gloom of the Cannes beachfront pavilion. There he is, behind the curtain, still as a millpond, his clothes dark and his glasses darker. "I am not a creature of the red carpet," he explains, lest there be any doubt of that. Today he could pass for a fugitive from justice or a supergrass on witness protection, set to dish the dirt from his base in the shadows.
Once, not so long ago, Kiarostami was the de facto leader of the Iranian new wave, the creator of soulful, enigmatic human stories rooted in his home soil. Now the movement is defunct and the 71-year-old director in effect stateless, flushed from his habitat by the Ahmadinejad...
It's hard to spot Abbas Kiarostami amid the gloom of the Cannes beachfront pavilion. There he is, behind the curtain, still as a millpond, his clothes dark and his glasses darker. "I am not a creature of the red carpet," he explains, lest there be any doubt of that. Today he could pass for a fugitive from justice or a supergrass on witness protection, set to dish the dirt from his base in the shadows.
Once, not so long ago, Kiarostami was the de facto leader of the Iranian new wave, the creator of soulful, enigmatic human stories rooted in his home soil. Now the movement is defunct and the 71-year-old director in effect stateless, flushed from his habitat by the Ahmadinejad...
- 5/28/2012
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Photo by Gareth Cattermole . © 2012 Getty Images.
Sundance Selects announced today from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival that the company is acquiring all Us rights to Like Someone In Love directed and written by former Palme d’Or winner Abbas Kiarostami (Certified Copy, The Taste Of Cherry). The film is an MK2 and Eurospace Production. It stars Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryo Kase. It was produced by Marin Karmitz (MK2) and Kenzo Horikoshi (Eurospace), and associate produced by Nathanael Karmitz and Charles Gillibert. Like Someone In Love made its world premiere in competition earlier in the week at the Cannes Film Festival.
In his follow-up to the stateside hit Certified Copy (which starred Juliette Binoche), Abbas Kiarostami’s returns with yet another dazzling cinematic puzzle. 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.
Sundance Selects announced today from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival that the company is acquiring all Us rights to Like Someone In Love directed and written by former Palme d’Or winner Abbas Kiarostami (Certified Copy, The Taste Of Cherry). The film is an MK2 and Eurospace Production. It stars Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryo Kase. It was produced by Marin Karmitz (MK2) and Kenzo Horikoshi (Eurospace), and associate produced by Nathanael Karmitz and Charles Gillibert. Like Someone In Love made its world premiere in competition earlier in the week at the Cannes Film Festival.
In his follow-up to the stateside hit Certified Copy (which starred Juliette Binoche), Abbas Kiarostami’s returns with yet another dazzling cinematic puzzle. 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.
- 5/27/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sundance Selects said Sunday that it is taking U.S. rights to Cannes Film Festival Competition entry Like Someone in Love, directed and written by former Palme d'Or winner Abbas Kiarostami (Certified Copy, The Taste of Cherry). The film, an MK2 and Eurospace Production, stars Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryo Kase and made its world premiere at the festival earlier in the week. The film is about an old man and a young woman who meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, while he thinks he knows her and welcomes her into his home. "Soon it becomes
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- 5/27/2012
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Selects has acquired U.S. rights to "Like Someone in Love," written and directed by former Palme d'Or winner Abbas Kiarostami, the company announced Sunday. The film, which made its world premiere in competition earlier this week at Cannes, stars Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryo Kase. It explores the sudden relationship of a young woman and old man in Tokyo. Also read: Cannes 2012: Kristen Stewart Embraces Topless, Beatnik Role in 'On the Road' Marin Karmitz of MK2 and Kenzo Horikoshi of Eurospace produced, with associate producers Nathanael Karmitz and Charles Gillibert. Earlier,...
- 5/27/2012
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
On the final day of the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Selects has picked up all U.S. rights to Abbas Kiarostami's competition title "Like Someone In Love." The film -- starring Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryo Kase -- marks one of many Cannes titles Sundance Selects and sister company IFC Films have acquired. Others include "On the Road," "Beyond the Hills" and "The Angels' Share," all also in competition. The deal for the film was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions & Productions for Sundance Selects/IFC Films, with Victoire Thevenin of MK2 on behalf of the filmmakers. Full press release below. Cannes, France (May 27, 2012) – Sundance Selects announced today from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival that the company is acquiring all Us rights to Like Someone In Love directed and written by former Palme d'Or winner Abbas Kiarostami (Certified Copy, The Taste Of...
- 5/27/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Cannes, France (May 27, 2012) – Sundance Selects announced today from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival that the company is acquiring all Us rights to Like Someone In Love directed and written by former Palme d’Or winner Abbas Kiarostami (Certified Copy, The Taste Of Cherry). The film is an MK2 and Eurospace Production. It stars Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryo Kase. It was produced by Marin Karmitz (MK2) and Kenzo Horikoshi (Eurospace), and associate produced by Nathanael Karmitz and Charles Gillibert. Like Someone In Love made its world premiere in competition earlier in the week at the Cannes Film Festival. In his follow-up to the stateside hit Certified Copy (which starred Juliette Binoche), Abbas Kiarostami’s returns with yet another dazzling cinematic puzzle. 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.
- 5/27/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
In On the Road, Walter Salles’ reverent, at times almost painfully faithful adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s birth-of-the-Beat-spirit novel, the characters are always getting high on one thing or another, and I don’t just mean drugs — though they do smoke weed and dissolve Benzedrine into their coffee. They also go to after-hours clubs and listen to twisty ecstatic jazz, their bodies shaking and writhing as the music works its way inside them. They have a lot of sex, too, some of it pretty exposed (hello, Nc-17!): On a car ride to nowhere, Sal (Sam Riley), the Kerouac character,...
- 5/23/2012
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami made a major splash at the 2010 Cannes film festival with his first feature film shot outside of his home country of Iran, Certified Copy. This year, the renowned auteur returns with his second non-Iranian production, Like Someone in Love, shot completely in Japanese amidst the neon lights of Tokyo. But shooting in a foreign country doesn’t mean the director is straying from themes that have dominated his body of work since the early ’70s. What seems to anchor Kiarostami as one of the most revered filmmakers working today is his ability to reflect the natural unexpectedness of reality by forcing us to question the identity of his characters. These thematic through-lines continue to evolve in Like Someone in Love, an enigmatic examination of the different forms of affection that people can have for one another.
The film opens in a posh cafe at night as...
The film opens in a posh cafe at night as...
- 5/23/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Cannes, France — Abbas Kiarostami has found inspiration far from home.
The Iranian director's films are routinely banned in his home country, whose Islamist government has arrested or barred several younger filmmakers from working.
The 72-year-old auteur has responded by looking abroad for inspiration. His last feature, "Certified Copy," was shot in Italy, and his new Cannes Film Festival entry "Like Someone in Love" was made in Tokyo, in Japanese and with a Japanese cast.
"In the past few years for fairly obvious reasons, perhaps, I had to work outside Iran," Kiarostami told reporters in Cannes on Monday, saying this presented him with a challenge. "How could I convey to you what I had in my imagination without resorting to geography?"
Kiarostami built a global reputation with simple stories told with passion and conviction in Iran-set films like "Life and Nothing More" and "Through the Olive Trees. He said now setting...
The Iranian director's films are routinely banned in his home country, whose Islamist government has arrested or barred several younger filmmakers from working.
The 72-year-old auteur has responded by looking abroad for inspiration. His last feature, "Certified Copy," was shot in Italy, and his new Cannes Film Festival entry "Like Someone in Love" was made in Tokyo, in Japanese and with a Japanese cast.
"In the past few years for fairly obvious reasons, perhaps, I had to work outside Iran," Kiarostami told reporters in Cannes on Monday, saying this presented him with a challenge. "How could I convey to you what I had in my imagination without resorting to geography?"
Kiarostami built a global reputation with simple stories told with passion and conviction in Iran-set films like "Life and Nothing More" and "Through the Olive Trees. He said now setting...
- 5/21/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Prior to lining up for Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love here in Cannes the sky opened up and the rain began to pour. As is the necessity, I dutifully got in line under the shared cover of a tiny umbrella. We stood outside for a good 30 minutes until finally taking our seats. Set to begin at 7:30 Pm, the film will play for an hour and 49 minutes. It's not going to start on time. I'm fading. The lights dim. The movie begins... We are introduced to Akiko (Rin Takanashi), a young prostitute who's lying to her boyfriend (Ryo Kase). We're in a darkened lounge where she's entertaining an older gentleman but prepared to head off to her next stop. Her grandmother is in town, but she's gone out of her way not to answer her phone calls or return her several messages, though we are given the opportunity...
- 5/21/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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