“SOMETIMES THE THINGS I DO ASTOUND ME”

“Like Someone in Love” to japońsko-francuski film dramatyczny z 2012 roku. Reżyserem, producentem i scenarzystą obrazu jest Abbas Kiarostami, autor m.in. „Zapisków z Toskanii”, „10”, „Biletów” czy „Uniesie nas wiatr”. Film “Like Someone in Love” był w 2012 roku nominowany do Złotej Palmy na 65. Międzynarodowym Festiwalu Filmowym w Cannes. Akcja filmu rozgrywa się w czasach współczesnych w dużym, japońskim mieście. Historia koncentruje się na studentce, która aby opłacić studia musi się prostytuować. W filmie pojawia się także postać wykładowcy oraz bardzo zazdrosnego młodego mężczyzny, w każdej chwili gotowego by wybuchnąć przez gniew. W ciągu dnia te trzy postacie tworzą nieoczekiwane związki, które zmienią ich życie na zawsze. W filmie “Like Someone in Love” w rolach głównych zagrali: Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase, Denden oraz Tadashi Okuno (za: http://film.wp.pl/id,30036,title,Like-Someone-in-Love,film.html).

"An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter".

Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2012
Directed by: Abbas KIAROSTAMI
Starring: Tadashi OKUNO, Rin TAKANASHI, Ryo KASE

Like Someone In Love (2012) - Official Trailer

Co o filmie pisze The Guardian?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/146642/like-someone-in-love

Abbas Kiarostami's new film is a strange, unfinished spectacle whose ending simply looks amputated – a "missing reel" effect. It's the second time I have seen it since its premiere at Cannes last year, and I was by turns intrigued, startled and sceptical in exactly the same way, although I have to concede its immersive brilliance, especially in its first two scenes. A film-maker such as Kiarostami deserves many considerations, and one of them is a repeat viewing, though a lesser director might be suspected of just having thought of a great beginning and middle of a conventional story, but failed to come up with an ending. Rin Takanashi is Akiko, a beautiful young student working as an escort; Tadashi Okuno is a lonely, elderly academic, Takashi. Their paths cross; the story is tense, and then … Well, what an elegantly manicured garden path we are led up. Are there hints of what is to happen, or not happen? Akiko tells a joke, but doesn't finish it. Takashi mutters some lines of verse he has to translate, but not all of them. You might compare it to The Castle, the screen adaptation of Kafka's unfinished work by Michael Haneke, a famously passionate admirer of Kiarostami. Or perhaps Kiarostami's own masterpiece A Taste of Cherry, whose ending finally takes us over the cliff edge of narrative expectation, though in a more interesting, and heartstopping way. This is a minor work by Kiarostami, but well acted and made with eerily deliberate poise.

(by Peter Bradshow http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jun/20/like-someone-in-love-review)

Co o filmie sądzi The NEW YORKER?

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/film/like_someone_in_love_kiarostami

"This wondrous, fable-like, yet pain-streaked new film by the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is set in Tokyo, where a young prostitute working her way through college (Rin Takanashi) is pressured by her firmly paternal pimp to see a john that night despite her prior appointment with her grandmother. The next morning, the client (Tadashi Okuno), a retired professor, drives her to school, where, thrown together with her fiancé (Ryo Kase), a conscientious mechanic, the old man rapidly assumes a surprisingly active and beneficent role in her life. The story’s sentimental contours—emphasized by Kiarostami’s distinctive blend of analytical stylization and documentary avidity—throw character traits into sharp relief while filling in the background with a tangle of relationships and moral twists. From the very first shot—in a bar, where the action is sparked by an off-camera voice—he revitalizes the ordinary by means of his extraordinary powers of perception and juxtaposition. As in many of his movies, the bulk of the action takes place in and around cars. The filmed trips through Tokyo infuse the rich texture of the city with a startling emotional intensity and a sense of teeming ambient drama; keen and searching gazes through windows and windshields and their myriad reflections evoke silent cries of solitude. In Japanese".

Recenzja blogowicza Majkonmajk o filmie: http://majkonmajk.blogspot.com/2013/05/like-someone-in-love.html

"Scenariusz opowiada historię niejakiej Akiko, młodej prostytutki z Tokio. Ukrywa ona swą "posadę" przed zazdrosnym o wszystko chłopakiem, niejakim Noriakim. Dziewczyna pewnego wieczoru otrzymuje nietypowe zadanie, trafia bowiem do domu dziwacznego staruszka, który okazuje się poszukiwać raczej hostessy (w znaczeniu japońskim), aniżeli dziwki. Cała akcja filmu, co ciekawe, nie przekracza czasowo nawet 24 godzin. Historia rozpoczyna się bowiem w środku nocy, a kończy w okolicach popołudniowych".

"Like Someone in Love" to też ogromna porcja pozytywnego vibe'u wypływającego z ekranu".

Recenzowana dziś produkcja to trochę taka pocztówka z Tokio. Ale nie tego turystycznego, nowoczesnego miasta"

Kwituje na koniec: "Like Someone in Love" pokazem geniuszu może nie jest, ale obejrzeć to to warto".