Cinema Releases - Like Someone in Love
Like Someone in Love, named after Ella Fitzgerald’s jazz standard,is a droll, elegant and playful film preoccupied with identities mistaken and assumed,laced with references to the films of Yasujiro Ozu. Akiko,a pretty and slightly distant sociology student works nights as a high- class escort. Instead of studying for her exams and meeting her grandmother, she reluctantly goes to the house of her latest client, retired sociology professor Takashi. The next morning, she allows him to give her a ride to university, crossing paths with her volatile boyfriend, Noriaki (Ryo Kase). The latter assume that the kind old man is Akiko's grandfather, thus allowing an odd role-playing routine to begin, until,perhaps, the hoax is discovered.
After Certified Copy and Ten, Like Someone in Love offers, with pristine images and long takes of the streets of Tokyo at night, a new facet of Kiarostami’s study of human relations and unforeseeable encounters.
Official Selection, Competition, Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival
Official Selection, New York Film Festival
Week Commencing 29.11.2013
Alhambra Cinema | Lonsdale City, St John St | Keswick CA12 5AG | 017687 72195 | 1st December only |
Abbas Kiarostami was born in 1940 in Tehran.
Between 1960 to 1968, he started his cinematographic career designing credits and directing advertisements. With a friend in 1969, Kiarostami founded the Cinematographic Department of the Institute for Children and Young Adults Intellectual Development that, in the course of the years, has produced a significant number of high quality Iranian movies.
By 1970 Abbas Kiarostami had directed numerous short films and features. At the end of the 1980s Kiarostami obtained a well-deserved international recognition, winning important awards including Cannes’ Palme d’or in 1997 and Venice’s Golden Lion in 1999.
With Certified Copy (2009), Kiarostami starts shooting outside Iran with an international cast, including Juliette Binoche who went on to receive the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. Like Someone In Love brings Abbas Kiarostami to Japan, another universe for him to discover.
2012 LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
Cannes 2012: Official Selection - In Competition
2010 CERTIFIED COPY (Copie conforme)
Cannes 2010: Best Actress award for Juliette Binoche
2008 SHIRIN
2007 WHERE IS MY ROMEO?
Segment from the collective film TO EACH HIS OWN CINEMA directed for Cannes 60th Anniversary
4 video letters to Victor Erice
2005 CORRESPONDANCES
ROADS OF KIAROSTAMI
TICKETS segment from the film COLLECTIF directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Ermanno Olmi and Ken Loach
2004 10 ON TEN
FIVE Dedicated to Ozu
2002 TEN
2001 ABC AFRICA
1999 THE WIND WILL CARRY US (Baad ma ra khahad bord)
Venice 1999: Jury Grand Prix, International FIPRESCI Critic’s Prize
1997 TASTE OF CHERRY (Tam’e Guilass) Cannes 1997: Palme d’Or
BIRTH OF LIGHT
1995 AN EGG (UN OEUF) segment from the film LUMIERE AND COMPANY
REPÉRAGES segment from the film À PROPOS DE NICE, LA SUITE…
1994 THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES (Zir-e derakhtan-e zeytoun)
1992 AND LIFE GOES ON (Zendegi edamé dârad)
1990 CLOSE-UP (Nema-ye Nazdik)
1989 HOMEWORK ( Mashgh-e Shab)
1987 WHERE IS THE FRIEND’S HOME? (Kaneh-ye doust kojast ?)
1984 FIRST GRADERS (Avali ha)
1983 LE CONCITOYEN
1982 THE CHORUS (Hamsarayan)
1981 ORDERLY OR UNORDERLY
(original title: Be tartib va bedoun-e tartib)
1980 DENTAL HYGIENE (Behdasht-e Dandan)
1979 FIRST CASE, SECOND CASE (Ghazieh-ye shekl-e aval, Ghazieh-e shekl-e dovom)
1978 SOLUTION NO 1 (Rah-e hal-e yek)
1977 TO PAINT episode from HOW TO MAKE USE OF OUR LEISURE TIME? (Az Oghat-e Faraghat-e Khod Chegouneh Estefadeh Konim?)
THE REPORT (Gozarech)
TRIBUTE TO THE TEACHERS (original title: Bozorgdasht-e mo’Allem)
1976 THE COLOURS (original title: Rang ha)
A SUIT FOR WEDDING (Lebassi baraye aroussi)
1975-1979 JAHAN-NAMA PALACE
1975 SO I CAN (Man ham mitounam)
TWO SOLUTIONS FOR ONE PROBLEM (Dow rahe hal baraye yek massaleh)
1974 THE TRAVELER (Mossafer)
1973 THE EXPERIENCE (Tadjrobeh)
1972 THE BREAKTIME (Zang-e tafrih)
1970 THE BREAD AND ALLEY (Nan va koutcheh)
CAST
Director |
Abbas KIAROSTAMI |
Original Screenplay |
Abbas KIAROSTAMI |
The Grand Mother’s messages |
Mohammad RAHMANI |
Director’s Assistant and Interpreter |
Shohreh GOLPARIAN |
1st Assistant Director |
Yuichi TAZAWA |
2nd Assistant Director |
Kazuki TOBITA |
3rd Assistant Director |
Satoru HIROHARA |
Script Girl |
EdiShogo YOKOYAMA |
Casting Director |
Tsuyoshi SUGINO |
Director of Photography |
Katsumi YANAGIJIMA |
Camera Assistants |
Shinji SUZUKI, Takayuki MATSUMOTO, |
|
Anna TANAKA |
Video Engineer |
Akira SEKIGUCHI |
Editing |
Bahman KIAROSTAMI |
Editor Assistant |
Edishogo YOKOYAMA |
Sound Mixer |
Nobuyuki KIKUCHI |
Sound Editing |
Reza NARIMIZADEH |
Mix |
Mohmmadreza DELPAK |
Set Designer |
Toshihiro ISOMI |
Assistant Set Designers |
Emiko TSUYUKI, Takeshi ANABAYASHI, |
Ayu HASUIKE, Masato NUNOBE, |
|
|
Nohara ICHIJO |
Set Coordinator |
Yoshihumi HIRAKO |
Costumes |
Masae MIYAMOTO |
Make-up/Hair |
Shinji HASHIMOTO |
Make-up Artist/Hair Dresser |
Yoshie NAGAKUBO |
Production Managers |
Tetsuya NAKAMURA, Ryusuke MIYAMORI, |
|
Naoko NAKAMARUO |
Produced by |
Marin KARMITZ - Kenzo HORIKOSHI |
Associate Producers |
Nathanaël KARMITZ Charles GILLIBERT |
A France/Japan co-production With the participation of CNC |
Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée and of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government |
109 minutes
CAST
AKIKO |
Rin TAKANASHI |
TAKASHI |
Tadashi OKUNO |
NORIAKI |
Ryo KASE |
HIROSHI |
Denden |
THE NEIGHBOUR |
Mihoko SUZUKI |
AKIKO’S GRAND MOTHER |
Kaneko KUBOTA |
OLD STUDENT |
Hiroyuki KISHI |
NAGISA |
Reiko MORI |
THE TAXI DRIVER |
Kouichi OHORI |
THE AUTO MECHANIC |
Tomoaki TATSUMI |
NAGISA’S FRIEND |
Seina KASUGAI |
★★★★★
“A Modern Tokyo Story from the Iranian magician of Cinema…LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE is another miracle at close quarters.”
Robbie Collin, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
★★★★
“Iranian maestro Abbas Kiarostami heads to Tokyo for this multi-faceted jewel”
“Beautifully shot and filled with ominous tension, Like Someone In Love is compulsively watchable.”
Andrew Schenker, LITTLE WHITE LIES
★★★★
CRITIC'S CHOICE - TIME OUT
"Abbas Kiarostami tells a beguiling, mysterious tale..."
Ed Porter, SUNDAY TIMES
“An intriguing elliptical affair…like so much of Kiarostami’s work, the further away one gets, the more it seems to mean; his real skill, perhaps, is in making the profound appear lightweight.”
Mark Kermode, THE OBSERVER“LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE, is a must for followers of the great Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami…”
Kate Muir, THE TIMES
“I have to concede its immersive brilliance, especially in its first two scenes…”
Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
“A tender and touching drama…terrifically moving.”
THE VIEW
★★★★★“A luxuriant, purring poem of intertwined lives...Kiarostami’s film bows out leaving us desperate for more.
Another miracle at close quarters."
Robbie Collin, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
★★★★
“So delicate...so elegant …engrossing”
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
'A WONDROUS FILM. Surpasses even the visual enticements of his previous feature, 'Certified Copy'.'
Richard Brody, The New Yorker
"Like Someone in Love achieves perfection"
David Erlich Reverse Shot
“Sensuous and mysterious…more willing to challenge narrative conventions than almost anything else in competition”Dennis Lim, Artforum
"Abbas Kiarostami's "Like Someone In Love" is the best new movie playing around right now. Gorgeous and hypnotic, it takes you by surprise..."Bret Easton Ellis (twitter)
‘The Great surprise of Cannes... thrilling’
Karina Longworth, Village Voice
‘A miracle...visual beauty in every instant…and of a delightful sophistication’
Jean-Francois Rauger, Le Monde
'EXQUISITELY MADE. An enchanting game of misfired passions and mistaken identities.'
Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
'A TANTALIZING MYSTERY Leaves you contemplating its significance long after it ends.'Eric Kohn, Indiewire
'A film of intense visual beauty. Its cinematography embodies the ambiguities in the story of an encounter between an elderly professor and a student moonlighting as a call girl."
Stephen Holden, The New York Times
'An elegant riddle of willful mistaken identity.'
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
'GORGEOUS, DEEPLY MYSTERIOUS AND UNSETTLING. Kiarostami's mastery is on immediate display. A bewitching and intriguingly ambiguous exploration of the roles we play with one another, and how nothing is ever quite what it appears to be. Kiarostami casts a spell that deeply resonates with one long after the film is over.'
Christopher Bourne, Twitch Film
'Kiarostami is masterful in his layering of space, using glass walls, mirrors, and, in one instance, the aligned side windows of parked cars to suggest a world of divisions, both between people and within them.'
J.R. Jones, The Chicago Reader
'An elegant, wholly original brainteaser certain to inspire debate.'
Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out Chicago
'Very tricky, very engaging.'
Stuart Klawans, The Nation
'An intoxicating series of sleights-of-hand. Kiarostami masterfully plays with expectation; clichés are upended in both character arcs and manipulation of visual perspective. The result is a film that riffs beautifully on the jazz standard that gives it its title.'
Ernest Hardy, LA Weekly
Watch a discussion between Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Pena during the New York Film Festival
Watch the Cannes press conference of Like Someone in Love (May 2012)
Short filmed interview (English voice-over) from Sundance Now
Interview with Abbas Kiarostami in the Toronto Star
Indiewire Interview with Abbas Kiarostami by Eric Kohn
Intervew with Abbas Kiarostami by Jonathan Robbings during the 50th New York Film Festival
Download the poster Downlaod the pressbook
For hi-res photos, see Press section of website