Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Screenplay: Abbas Kiarostami
Cinematographer: Yanagijima Katsumi
Editing: Bahman Kiarostami
Art Direction: Isomi Toshihiro
Sound: Kikuchi Nobuyuki
Cast.: Takanashi Rin, Okuno Tadashi, Kase Ryo, Denden, Suzuki Mihoko, Kubota Kaneko, Kishi Kiroyuki, Mori Reiko
Production: MK2, Europace
Distribution:
Diaphana Distribution
155 rue du Fbg St Antoine
75011 Paris
Tel: 0033-1.53.46.66.66
Mail: [email protected]
Year: 2012
35 mm, Color, 109 min,
OV Japanese with French subtitles
Official Competition - Cannes 2012
We are in a big city of Japan today. The three characters are an old university scholar also guarantor of traditions, a young attractive student having to sell her charms to pay her studies, and a young jealous man whose violence can no longer be contained. Throughout one day, unexpected relationships bind the three of them, changing their lives forever.
“The problem with Like Someone in Love is that Abbas Kiarostami does not get away when he leaves Iran. I am extremely concerned by that. I think a creative artist is deeply rooted in his national reality, and he is deeply expected to be universal. Hence he must be within and
outside. How can he do without getting lost? How can he remain himself?
After working with a famous actress like Juliette Binoche in Certified Copy, he chose two beginners for Like Someone in Love: one is eighty years old and the other one twenty! He goes even deeper with his search, expression and complexity of relationships. ” Marin Karmitz
