Chicken With Plums
a MARJANE SATRAPI & VINCENT PARONNAUD picture
Synopsis
Tehran 1958 – Nasser Ali Khan, the most celebrated violin player, has his beloved instrument broken. Unable to find another to replace it, life without music seems intolerable. He stays in bed and slips further and further into his reveries from his youth to his own children’s futures. Over the course of the week that follows, and as the pieces of this captivating story fall into place, we understand his poignant secret and the profundity of his decision to give up life for music and love.
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Press
"“Poulet aux Prunes” is a feast of a film, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, deeply human and often utterly fantastic in its vision, a whole world in itself, which leaves behind it mixed feelings of pleasure and deep melancholy, as all the best tales in this rich tradition should."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
"The same winning balance of seriousness and humor that made “Persepolis” such a hit works equally well in “Chicken With Plums,” whose visual flair proves that helmers Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud have a career in live-action as well as in animation."
VARIETY
"The same winning balance of seriousness and humor that made “Persepolis” such a hit works equally well in “Chicken With Plums,” whose visual flair proves that helmers Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud have a career in live-action as well as in animation."
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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& Awards
Venice International Film Festival
In Competition
Toronto International Film Festival
Special Presentation
Sitges International Film Festival
London Film Festival
Official Selection
Busan International Film Festival
World Cinema
Tokyo International Film Festival
World Cinema
Abu Dhabi International Film Festival
Black Pearl Award for Best Narrative
São Paulo International Film Festival
Audience Award
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Dublin International Film Festival
Dublin Film Critics Special Jury Prize
Ghent International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival
Zurich Film Festival
Hamburg Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
Reykjavik International Film Festival
Cast & Crew
| Mathieu Amalric | |
|---|---|
| Edouard Baer | |
| Maria De Medeiros | |
| Golshifteh Farahani | |
| Eric Caravaca | |
| Chiara Mastroianni | |
| Jamel Debbouze | |
| Isabella Rossellini |
| Directed and Written by | Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud |
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| Producer | Hengameh Panahi |
| Co-producers | Christophe Bichot, Rémi Burah, Christoph Fisser, Henning Molfenter, Adrian Politowski, Gilles Waterkeyn, Charlie Woebcken |
| Line-producer | Jasmin Torbati |
| Executive Producers | Jeremy Burdek, François-Xavier Decraene, Nadia Khamlichi |
| Cinematographer | Christophe Beaucarne |
| Sound | Gilles Laurent, Jean-Stephane Garbe |
| Production Design | Udo Kramer |
| Costume Design | Madeline Fontaine |
| Editor | Stephane Roche |
| Music | Olivier Bernet |
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