About Like Someone in Love
- Year Released:
- 2013
- Genres:
- Drama
- Metadata:
- Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami travels far
from his native Iran for this mysteriously beautiful
romantic drama filmed entirely in Japan. Like
Someone in Love revolves around the brief
encounter between an elderly professor,
and a student who moonlights as a
high-end escort. Dispatched to the
old man by her boss—one of the
professor’s former students—the
young woman finds her client less
interested in sex than in cooking
her soup, talking, and playing
Ella Fitzgerald records. Eventually,
night gives way to day and a tense
standoff with the student’s insanely
jealous boyfriend; but as usual in
Kiarostami, nothing is quite as it
appears. (2K DCP presentation)
