
Like Someone in Love I is a Japanese-language film directed by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. It was selected to be screened in the main competition section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Written by Abbas Kiarostami.... (Full plot summary below)
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Like Someone in Love I is a Japanese-language film directed by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. It was selected to be screened in the main competition section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Written by Abbas Kiarostami.
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| The SkinnyPhilip ConcannonFrom the incredible opening shot onwards, it's clear Kiarostami's cinematic language translates perfectly in any setting. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinLike Someone in Love, is another miracle at close quarters. Its subject is the impossibility of intimacy in the modern world: chewy stuff, to be sure, but Kiarostami explores it with a depth and delicacy that recalls the Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu. |
| MSN MoviesGlenn Kenny... it ratchets up to one of the most galvanic and disturbing visions Kiarostami has ever concocted |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenIf there is a visual equivalent to that title song - the Billie Holiday version is favored here - Kiarostami seems to have found it. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisEvery shot - everything you see, and everything you don't - imparts a disturbing and thrilling sense of discovery. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrThe new film is slender, and it plays obliquely with the style of the 20th-century Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu: simple shots of simple people revealing universal truths. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansKiarostami lets the moments between Akiko and Takashi unfold naturally, as these characters from different worlds find common bonds. |
| Toronto StarPeter HowellKiarostami's apparent simplicity masks serious complexity. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussThe movie is filled with examples of and references to methods of communication: Books, faxes, cell phone messages, answering machines, intercoms, misunderstood jokes, traffic signals, the honking of car horns, a painting of a parrot learning to speak... |
| Chicago Sun-TimesSteven BooneThe film's craziest, most easily mocked character emerges as the one most fully alive. Old Kiarostami, master of paradoxes, is set in his ways, but his ways are never set. |