Like Someone in Love, by Abbas Kiarostami. Despite this entire film being Japanese, the director was born and raised in Iran. and he's the same director as Certified Copy, which was spoken in English, French and Italian. If that doesn't deserve some credit, I don't know what does.

Now, if you're the type of person that doesn't typically watch films that deviate from the norm, but would like to start somewhere, TRUST ME that this is not the film you want to start with. Despite loving this film overall, it's not something that I would exactly recommend to people, unless they have a certain degree of patience. It's extremely well shot, and the characters are all convincingly realistically, but if you find that you're not the type of person who normally checks out things from the Criterion Collection, I would suggest checking out something else, and if this does look appealing to you, I would strongly recommend checking out Certified Copy, because that is a much, much better film.

Now, you're probably wondering why I have to add such a huge disclaimer in front of it, and the reason is because it's impossible for me to ignore just how meticulously directed this is. The majority of the movie is in real time, and everything's so natural and realistic that it really makes you feel like you're an omniscient observer on the conversations taking place. And I can rarely say this about a movie, but even when analysing and critiquing it, it's almost impossible to view the actors as anything but their characters.

The only flaw I noticed in the film was a moment near the end where one of the characters lines of dialogue was out of sync. But aside from that, this is an extremely professionally well done film. Granted, he would have drawn in bigger audiences had there been a few more arcs in the story, but when it's abundantly clear that he told the story he wanted to tell, I fail to see how that would be fair criticism.