Film

Named after an Ella Fitzgerald standard, Kiarostami’s Tokyo-set romantic riddle follows a financially struggling university student as she moonlights as a call girl for a retired professor. As the two strike up a tender but ambiguous relationship that is further complicated by her boyfriend’s jealousy, Kiarostami quietly entangles this unlikely pair in a web of chance encounters and misapprehensions. Marked by the director’s trademark narrative experimentation and conversational scenes of car-bound claustrophobia, Like Someone in Love is one of his most searching and puzzling examinations of how language reveals and occludes emotional truths.