Like Someone in love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012)

A Tokyo student moonlighting as a high-class prostitute to fund her studies is sent one day to a client who turns out to be an elderly widowed professor, with whom she forms an unexpected bond. Meanwhile, she has a possessive boyfriend in the wings, who forms the latent threat to their connection.
It's clear from his previous work that Kiarostami has a fixation with cars, not as a fetishist or as a road movie devotee, but instead as a stage where characters are at once enclosed and trapped in duologue, while the oblivious world goes on in plain view around them. So here too, the key incidents such as the professor's encounter with the boyfriend and then with someone who compromises his identity take place in cars. It's an example of the undercurrents to be found throughout the director's superficially mundane accounts, paralleled by the frequent recourse to pregnant silences in exchanges.
This is not the director's most focused work, having only one substantial idea and being somewhat uncertain about how to bring the episode to a close, but is nevertheless to be valued for allowing the viewer time to think, which is rare in most cinema.

6/10