Starring: Rin Takanishi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryo Kase
Akiko (Takanashi) is a call-girl in Tokyo who receives a job
from her employer (Denden) to visit a client who lives an hour’s taxi ride
away. When Akiko finally arrives, she discovers the client is an old man
(Okuno) who seems less interested in sleeping with Akiko and is more interested
in just having some company.
A French co-production by an Iranian director and set and
shot in Japan, Like Someone In Love is a conceptually simple film stretched
over two hours. Rather than throwing sheer exposition at the audience,
Kiarostami’s screenplay lets the exposition gently flow leaving the audience to
fill in the blanks. The relationship between Rin Takanishi and Tadashi Okuno is
a sweet and engaging one despite the many decades in age difference and the film
does manage to deftly handle drama with the occasional comedic element. The
pacing of the film is probably too sedentary for a lot of people and there is
perhaps more to be explored, but it’s a good demonstration of how a film can do
a great deal without actually showing very much.
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