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.
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Cast
- Rin TakanashiAkiko
- Tadashi OkunoTakashi
- Ryo KaseNoriaki
- DendenHiroshi
- Tomoaki TatsumiThe Mechanic
- Mihoko SuzukiThe Neighbor
- Kaneko KubotaAkiko's Grandmother
- Reiko MoriNagisa
- Seina KasugaiNagisa's Friend
- Koichi OhoriThe Taxi Driver
Recommendations
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Village Voice
The movie's sense of immutable desire resonates well after the lights have come up. - 83
IndieWire
While not his best work, Like Someone in Love is a nimble expression of Kiarostami's appeal: He remains one of the few directors capable of pulling you into a narrative and making you question its motives at every turn. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The movie is playful and makes no easy moral judgments. - 67
The A.V. Club
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. - 63
Slant Magazine
Plays out as a city-mouse rejoinder to the rustic, open-air daydream of Certified Copy, a snarl of thorny free jazz to that film's graceful aria. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 50
Variety
As it turns out, it's the first, not the last, word of the title that's key to this droll, elegant but faintly trying study in emotional artifice. - 42
The Playlist
There is a fine line between meeting an audience halfway and witholding enough without falling into self-indulgence, but Kiarostami can't make that balance here. Enigmatic and dull to a maddening degree, Like Someone In Love finds Kiarostami spinning his wheels.
