LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
2012 / Japan / France / 109 Minutes / In Japanese with English Subtitles
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Produced by Marin Karmitz, Kenzo Horikoshi, Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert
Cast: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryō Kase, Denden
Written by: Abbas Kiarostami
2012 / Japan / France / 109 Minutes / In Japanese with English Subtitles
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Produced by Marin Karmitz, Kenzo Horikoshi, Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert
Cast: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryō Kase, Denden
Written by: Abbas Kiarostami
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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.
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UPCOMING SCREENINGS
TIFF/ Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON
Opens April 12, 2013
Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, BC
Opens April 27, 2013
Carlton Cinema, Toronto
Opens May 3, 2013
Kingsway Theatre, Toronto
Opens May 3, 2013
Cinefest Picton, Regent Theatre, Picton, ON
May 20, 2013
Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon, SK
May 6 - 17, 2013
Windsor International Film Festival, Windsor, ON.
May 15, 2013
Regina Public Library, SK
May 23 - 26, 2013
Winnipeg Cinematheque, MB
May 24, 25, 26 & 30, 2013
Metro Cinema, Edmonton
Dates TBD
Previous Screenings
Hyland Cinema, London, ON
Opens April 12, 2013
Metro Cinema, Edmonton, AB
Opens April 12, 2013
Fri & Wed @ 7pm/ Sat @ 9:30pm/ Sun @ 2:30pm & 7pm/ Mon @ 8:45pm.
ByTowne Cinema, Ottawa, ON
Opens April 19, 2013
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REVIEWS
Interview with Abbas Kiarostami
- 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."
- Toronto Star
Interview w Kiarostami
- 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 & 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."
- Blog TO
"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."
- The 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