It was his final film to be released in his lifetime. His latest film, like someone in love, tells the story of two people at opposite poles of lifetakashi tadashi okuno, an 80yearold retired. The befuddled but wise professor in like someone in love struck me as a kiarostami avatar, dispensing his wisdom to the young call girlcollege student who ends up in his apartment by happenstance which, typical of kiarostami, is the result of many offscreen events that our imaginations must provide. Like someone in love directed by abbas kiarostami kiarostamis final narrative feature before his death in 2016 is the beguiling like someone in love, a strange sort of. Abbas kiarostami was an iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. See more ideas about photography, film photography and filmmaking. Oct 09, 2012 iranian filmmaker abbas kiarostami closeup, taste of cherry, certified copys like someone in love is an uneventfully captivating portrait of life as it happens. Though filming entirely on intimate closeup in the front of a single taxicab seemed a striking and innovative approach to a film, i did feel it might end up being a limitation for the film, and that 90 minutes of front seat conversations might begin to grate a. Jul 25, 2014 in april, the great iranian director abbas kiarostami made a special onstage appearance at indiana university bloomington to discuss both his career and his latest film, like someone in love, available from the criterion collection. His japanese movie like someone in love showcases his versatility as well. Feb 15, 20 like someone in love takes place almost entirely in confined spaces, including takashis living room and, especially, the inside of his volvo station wagon. Feb 14, 20 theres a lot of driving and talking in like someone in love, iranian director abbas kiarostamis latest production, but beyond thats only the surface. Abbas kiarostami simple english wikipedia, the free. It must have bugged iranian auteur abbas kiarostami that, with certified copy, he had strayed perilously close to making a commercial film.
Remembering abbas kiarostami by adam cook on july 4th, 2016, we lost who may have been our greatest working filmmaker. Like someone in love 2012 directed by abbas kiarostami. Abbas kiarostami celebrity profile check out the latest abbas kiarostami photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Abbas kiarostami was born in tehran, iran, in 1940. A japanesefrench coproduction directed by abbas kiarostami that finds the iranian auteur in tokyo with a japanese cast. Like someone in love is a frenchjapanese drama film written and directed by iranian director abbas kiarostami, starring rin takanashi, tadashi okuno and. At first, his extraordinary and sly like someone in love, which finds the iranian director in tokyo, may appear to be among his most straightforward films. Abbas kiarostami is best known for dusty, somber films shot in his native iran, but his 2012 like someone in love opens into a world of. This week sees the release of like someone in love, the. The excitement started when his slyly reflexive closeup reached the international circuit in the early nineties, and crested when his extraordinary taste of. Yet with this simple story of the growing bond between a young student and parttime call girl. Fresh from the triumph of his tuscanyset certified copy nyff 2010, master filmmaker abbas kiarostami travels even further afield from his. Once you like some of his movies, you will end up liking all of them. Mar 25, 2014 download like someone in love 2012 bluray 720p 700mb ezine movies.
Raiku samuwan in rabu is a frenchjapanese drama film written and directed by iranian director abbas kiarostami, starring rin takanashi, tadashi okuno and ryo kase. Abbas kiarostami s tokyoset like someone in love is a strange, unfinished spectacle a minor work but well acted and made with. Like someone in love 2012 the criterion collection. Like someone in love 2012 free download rare movies. Iranian writerdirector abbas kiarostami s like someone in love continues the filmmakers recent trend, per his tuscanyset certified copy, of stories set in nonpersian milieu in this case, contemporary japan. Apr 04, 2015 i recommend this one for a very captivating fifteen minutes, but i am not sure you need more than that. Abbas kiarostami was an iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer and film producer whose filmmaking career spanned more than 40 years. He was also the president of the camera dor jury in cannes film festival 2005. The auteur brings back the familiar themes of alienation, the feeling of loneliness in a big city, the clever mistaken. The francejapan coproduction competed for the palme dor at the 2012 cannes film festival.
Abbas kiarostami has spent his incomparable career exploring the spaces that separate illusion from reality and the simulated from the authentic. A cinematic luminary, abbas kiarostami is a leading figure among irans postrevolution artists, and widely celebrated for his photography and awardwinning films. Nosrat panahi nejad abbas kiarostami doors and memories film muto. Abbas kiarostamis last film certified copy perhaps his greatest commercial success, thanks in no small part to the presence of juliette binoche was the f. What is the best introduction to abbas kiarostami films. Legendary iranian director abbas kiarostami turns to the neon sprawl of tokyo for like someone in love, where his actors find some gentle. An awful year got worse yesterday with the announcement that abbas kiarostami, the great iranian filmmaker, had passed away at the age of 76. Feb 15, 20 abbas kiarostami discusses his latest film,like someone in love, made in japan, with richard pena during the press conference at the 50th new york film festival last october. Abbas kiarostami continues his global escapades away from his native iran with like someone in love, an elusive piece of contemplative cinema set in tokyo that serves as a companion film to the excellent certified copy. Its good news that the iranian director abbas kiarostamis wondrous new japanese film, like someone in love, which played at the new. And how the same heartbeat which meters our day, which maintains the humdrum, is the exact time it takes for everything to change.
We were there to record the conversation, which was moderated by richard pena, professor of film studies at columbia university. Download like someone in love 2012 bluray 720p 700mb ezine. Like someone in love is a complicated triangle involving a prostitute, her pimp and a john. He then joined the center for intellectual development of children and young adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career as a filmmaker at the age of 30. With rin takanashi, tadashi okuno, ryo kase, denden. Like someone in love 20, directed by abbas kiarostami. Its good news that the iranian director abbas kiarostamis wondrous new japanese film, like someone in love, which played at the new york film festival last fall, is opening in regular. Abbas kiarostamis tokyo short story interview magazine. Abbas kiarostami deserves more credit than any other single director for fueling the recent rise of iranian cinema, arguably the most dramatic film development of the past dozen years. Like someone in love 2012 is his last completed feature film. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. Always more interested in characters than plot, he retained.
Abbas kiarostami 1940, the leading iranian director of the generation that stormed the west in the 1990s, had actually started out with the short nan o kucheh the bread and alley 1970, the tender neorealist portrait of the traveler 1974 and the psychological study of the report 1977. Jul 04, 2016 like someone in love 2012, elegantly shot in japan, and in japanese, was ostensibly even more of a distance from kiarostamis world. Like someone in love, by abbas kiarostami the new york times. Like someone in love abbas kiarostami master class on vimeo. By emily vanderwerff and aja romano jul 6, 2016, 10. Like someone in love 2012, abbas kiarostami youtube. He was known for making documentaries or short movies. See three films or more and save with our discount package stop by the furman gallery to check out a stunning exhibition of photography by abbas kiarostami special offer for retrospective attendees. Abbas kiarostami discusses the mysteries of like someone in. Jul 05, 2016 abbas kiarostami, often hailed as irans greatest filmmaker, whose searching, parablelike dramas of ordinary people and their problems reflected a poetic vision and a philosophical turn of mind. Out of all the directors to have emerged in the last thirty years, im not. Despite its critical acclaim, i was uncertain approaching abbas kiarostami s ten. Whereas his movies tackle polemical and metaphysical questions through intimate and humble meditations on the featured characters, kiarostamis photographs tend to capture the.
Nan va koutchehthe bread and alley 1970, short, ghasre jahan namajahan. Jul 04, 2016 abbas kiarostami was a mysterious and delicate fabulist of human nature and human relations, a filmmaker whose stories were somehow in, but not of, the real world. Abbas kiarostami on like someone in love the current the. Jul 06, 2016 why you should know abbas kiarostami and his 6 most legendary films explore the intimate, quiet world of the great iranian filmmaker. Like someone in love revolves around the brief encounter between an elderly professor the wonderful 81yearold stage actor tadashi okuno, here playing his first leading role in a film and a. In tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days. Kiarostami gained recognition in the west from the late eighties with films such as closeup 1989, the true story of a film buff who impersonates a famous director, and through the olive trees 1994, part of a trilogy about an earthquakestruck village. An active filmmaker from 1970, kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing. Kiarostami was a jury member at numerous film festivals, most notably the cannes film festival in 1993, 2002 and 2005. A closeup of abbas kiarostami film at lincoln center. Emerging as a leading light of the iranian new wave in the 1970s, kiarostami stayed in the country after the islamic revolution, and despite the restrictions that came with both the. Dec 03, 2015 like someone in love, named after ella fitzgeralds jazz standard,is a droll, elegant and playful film preoccupied with identities mistaken and assumed,laced with references to the films of.
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