Like Someone in Love (2012)
Country: FR/JAP
Technical: col 109m
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryô Kase
Synopsis:
A sociology student moonlighting as an escort girl meets an elderly professor, whose benevolent interest in her leads to his posing as her grandfather to her possessive fiancé.
Review:
With the director as ever absorbed by the minutiae of human behaviour - a taxi journey, the removal and donning of shoes on entering and leaving the apartment - and using restricted view setups that carefully choreograph mise en scène while dispensing with the master shot, this is another shaggy dog story like Certified Copy, and like one of the heroine's saucy jokes, whose punchline she coyly withholds. Patience, however, yields rewards in the acting and dialogue, and the image quality is truly remarkable, evoking the themes of lost youth and unsullied innocence that the relationship between this unlikely pair encapsulates.
Country: FR/JAP
Technical: col 109m
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryô Kase
Synopsis:
A sociology student moonlighting as an escort girl meets an elderly professor, whose benevolent interest in her leads to his posing as her grandfather to her possessive fiancé.
Review:
With the director as ever absorbed by the minutiae of human behaviour - a taxi journey, the removal and donning of shoes on entering and leaving the apartment - and using restricted view setups that carefully choreograph mise en scène while dispensing with the master shot, this is another shaggy dog story like Certified Copy, and like one of the heroine's saucy jokes, whose punchline she coyly withholds. Patience, however, yields rewards in the acting and dialogue, and the image quality is truly remarkable, evoking the themes of lost youth and unsullied innocence that the relationship between this unlikely pair encapsulates.
Country: FR/JAP
Technical: col 109m
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryô Kase
Synopsis:
A sociology student moonlighting as an escort girl meets an elderly professor, whose benevolent interest in her leads to his posing as her grandfather to her possessive fiancé.
Review:
With the director as ever absorbed by the minutiae of human behaviour - a taxi journey, the removal and donning of shoes on entering and leaving the apartment - and using restricted view setups that carefully choreograph mise en scène while dispensing with the master shot, this is another shaggy dog story like Certified Copy, and like one of the heroine's saucy jokes, whose punchline she coyly withholds. Patience, however, yields rewards in the acting and dialogue, and the image quality is truly remarkable, evoking the themes of lost youth and unsullied innocence that the relationship between this unlikely pair encapsulates.