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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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19-Jul-2021, 12:26 PM

Like Someone In Love - 2012 - 6/10
AKA - ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ

Another film by Abbas Kiarostami, though not as maddeningly provocative as Copie Conforme (Certified Copy).
Struggling female student, pretty (they are always pretty), earns needed income by visiting elder men. *
Her procurer pushes her toward a particular client, while urging her to drop her possessive, suspicious boyfriend.
Film almost exclusively talk (Japanese), broken with quiet moments as characters do mundane tasks.
Restless viewers will rush for the volleyball channel after twenty minutes.
Everyone else will recognize the slow trainwreck, and still be unprepared for the ending.

  • I thought the casual co-ed hooker urban legend was an overused cliché.
    Seen this plotline in way too many movies and TV shows.
    Lo and behold, the local rag runs a story on a flock of pretty, neighborhood girls busted for solicitation.
    All students at the most prestigious college in town, and a Christian one, at that.
    They needed money for tuition, among other essentials.