Like Someone In Love

• language: Japanese
• director: Abbas Kiarostami
• actor: Denden Rin Takanashi Ryo Kase Tadashi Okuno
• writer: Abbas Kiarostami

Synopsis:

Dispatched to an elderly professor, a sociology student who moonlights as a high-end escort finds her latest client less interested in sex than in cooking her soup, talking, and playing old Ella Fitzgerald records. Eventually, night gives way to day and a tense standoff with the student’s insanely jealous boyfriend; but nothing is quite as it appears on the surface. Are these characters – who conjure in one another the spectres of regret and roads not taken – meeting by chance, or is it fate? Is this love, or merely something like it?

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