Like Someone in Love

Like Someone in Love (Japanese: ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ, Hepburn: Raiku samuwan in rabu) is a 2012 drama film written and directed by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, starring Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi and Ryō Kase. A co-production between Japan and France, the film centers on the unusual bond between an elderly retired professor and a young student moonlighting as a high-class prostitute, while the latter is dealing with her jealous boyfriend. The film had its world premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or. It was Kiarostami's final film to be released in his lifetime before his death in 2016.