Los Angeles Times:

Kiarostami's 2010 film, "Certified Copy," was an enigmatic romance starring Juliette Binoche and opera singer William Shimell set against the timeless beauty of Tuscany. His newest, "Like Someone in Love," which opens Feb. 15 in Los Angeles, finds him further exploring the slippage of identity, this time in a story set in Tokyo.

From his first film, 1970's "Bread and Alley," Kiarostami has returned to favored themes with what might be thought of as a low-key boldness, an unshowy self-assurance in at times dizzying examinations of the gulf between fact and fiction in modern life. He won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with his 1997 film "Taste of Cherry." In 1990's "Close-Up," he blended documentary footage with staged sequences featuring real-life participants from the strange story of a man who tried to pass himself off as fellow Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

"I hope every day I'll be able to shoot my next film in Iran, in conditions that would be just a bit better than they are right now, in my own language and on the land on which I live," [Kiarostami] said. "But if the situation remains as difficult as it's been recently and as it is now, I'll have to again go abroad."

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