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LIKE SOME ONE IN LOVE Apr 12-18, By Abbas Kiarostami, Drama, NR, 109 min, in Japanese
LIKE SOME ONE IN LOVE Apr 12-18
By Abbas Kiarostami, Drama, NR, 109 min, in Japanese
" Kiarostami is masterful in his layering of space, using glass walls, mirrors, and, in one instance, the aligned side windows of parked cars to suggest a world of divisions, both between people and within them." Chicago Reader
" A Rorschach test of our own responses to the intimate drama unfolding before us." Seattle Times
Fresh from the triumph of his Tuscany-set Certified Copy (NYFF 2010), master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami travels even further afield from his native Iran for this mysteriously beautiful romantic drama filmed entirely in Japan. Like Someone in Love revolves around the brief encounter between an elderly professor (the wonderful 81-year-old stage actor Tadashi Okuno, here playing his first leading role in a film) and a sociology student (Rin Takanashi) who moonlights as a high-end escort. Dispatched to the old man by her bossone of the professor's former studentsthe young woman finds her latest client less interested in sex than in cooking her soup, talking, and playing old Ella Fitzgerald records (like the one that gives the film its allusive title). Eventually, night gives way to day and a tense standoff with the student's insanely jealous boyfriend (Ryō Kase); but as usual in Kiarostami, nothing is quite as it appears on the surface. Are these characterswho conjure in one another the specters of regret and roads not takenmeeting by chance, or is it fate? Is this love, or merely something like it?
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LocationLake Worth Playhouse Stonzek Theater
709 Lake Avenue
Lake Worth, FL 33460
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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