Click here to copy URL

Like Someone in Love

6.4

1,261

Votes

Add to lists

where to watch

Rent

buy

Pro reviews

Links

Original title

Raiku samuwan in rabu (Like Someone in Love)

Year

2012

Running time

109 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Screenwriter

Abbas Kiarostami

Cast

Cinematography

Katsumi Yanagishima

Producer

Co-production Japan-France;

Euro Space, MK2 Productions, CNC

Genre

Drama | Prostitution. Old Age / Elderly. Romantic Drama

Synopsis

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.

About similar movies and series:

Similarity over 75%

Similarity between 60% and 75%

Similarity between 40% and 60%

Similarity below 40%

Similar Movies to Like Someone in Love

Awards: 2012: Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection

2014: Asian Film Awards: nominated to Best Director.

Show all

Critics' reviews

"It is a beautifully shot, and very nicely acted beginning to something: but finally frustrating. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
"Its subject is the impossibility of intimacy in the modern world: chewy stuff, to be sure, but Kiarostami explores it with a depth and delicacy that recalls the Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu"

Robbie Collin: Telegraph
"The characters’ painful inability to connect only endears them to us, and somehow the film seems, like any human object of our affection might, more vivid and more knowable in its absence."

Austin Chronicle
"Is this the stuff of gripping drama? Not at all. But like nearly all of Kiarostami’s films, it’s the stuff of good conversation."

Noel Murray: AV Club
"Like Someone in Love is a movie that never quite lets you through to the other side of the glass, but it’s dazzling to watch whatever drifts by on the surface."

Dana Stevens: Slate
"The film's craziest, most easily mocked character emerges as the one most fully alive. Old Kiarostami, master of paradoxes, is set in his ways, but his ways are never set."

Steven Boone: Chicago Sun-Times
"Every shot - everything you see, and everything you don't - imparts a disturbing and thrilling sense of discovery"

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"The film constantly toys with the expectations of both its characters and the audience, transforming a classic three-way tale of mistaken identities into something much more mysterious and troubling"

Jordan Mintzer: Variety

Movie Soulmates' ratings: Register so you can access movie recommendations tailored to your movie taste.
Friends' ratings: Register so you can check out ratings by your friends, family members, and like-minded members of the FA community.

Is the synopsis/plot summary missing? Do you want to report a spoiler, error or omission? Please send us a message.
If you are not a registered user please send us an email to [email protected]

All copyrighted material (movie posters, DVD covers, stills, trailers) and trademarks belong to their respective producers and/or distributors.

For US ratings information please visit: www.mpaa.org www.filmratings.com www.parentalguide.org