Chicken With Plums

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Chicken With Plums

PG-13,

2012,

1h 31m,

Comedy/

Drama

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1,000+ Ratings

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When his beloved violin is broken, famed musician Nasser Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric) loses the will to live. Unable to find a replacement for the instrument, Nasser decides to retreat to his bed and await death. As he waits, Nasser plunges deep into reverie and experiences dreams both joyous and melancholic. He speaks with Azrael (Édouard Baer), the Angel of Death, who reveals the future of Nasser's children. As pieces of a puzzle fall together, the poignant secret of Nasser's life emerges.

Critics Consensus

Whimsical and melancholy, Chicken with Plums is visually striking and dreamily compelling despite its occasional narrative missteps.

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Violet Lucca

Film Comment Magazine

Jun 28, 2013

These moments give flavor, but fail to cohere into any particular taste.

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Eric Kohn

IndieWire

Apr 14, 2013

B+

While visually scrumptious, the movie struggles to reach a greater profundity that it never quite obtains, but its childlike emulation of a grand tragedy is indelibly precious.

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Joe Williams

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Oct 18, 2012

3.5/4

Resurrects the spirit of Middle Eastern fables, albeit with a French twist.

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Feb 12, 2024

Has that larger-than-life Technicolor feel to it.

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Sergio Benítez

Espinof

Apr 23, 2020

The limitless resources of the seventh art end up playing in favor of making the production a better embodiment of the story than we could find in its original vehicle. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Ellie Lucas

From the Front Row

Aug 6, 2019

2/4

It's undeniably beautiful, but it also feels awfully familiar, with the lighthearted mix of comedy and melancholy veering closer to Jeunet's territory than Satrapri's singular wit.

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Hagrid L

Jan 9, 2017

made me cry the fist time I saw it... I always get lost in the beautiful images and the peculiar way of tellings such a melancolic story

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Marjane Satrapi

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Vincent Paronnaud

Director

Mathieu Amalric

Nasser Ali

Édouard Baer

Azrael

Maria de Medeiros

Faringuisse

Golshifteh Farahani

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Synopsis

When his beloved violin is broken, famed musician Nasser Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric) loses the will to live. Unable to find a replacement for the instrument, Nasser decides to retreat to his bed and await death. As he waits, Nasser plunges deep into reverie and experiences dreams both joyous and melancholic. He speaks with Azrael (Édouard Baer), the Angel of Death, who reveals the future of Nasser's children. As pieces of a puzzle fall together, the poignant secret of Nasser's life emerges.

Director: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Producer: Hengameh Panahi
Screenwriter: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co: Canal+
Rating: PG-13 (Some Drug Content|Smoking|Sensuality|Violent Images)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 17, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 4, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $253.7K
Runtime: 1h 31m

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