Chicken with Plums

Name: Chicken with Plums
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 2011
Duration: 93 min
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Maria de Medeiros, Isabella Rossellini, Golshifteh Farahani, Chiara Mastroianni

Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi20111h 33mDrama, Romance

Why we chose it

Satrapi, the author of “Persepolis”, adapts another of her own graphic novels for the screen, this time with live actors, and goes back to an Iran that no longer exists. There’s magical realism and real feeling in this melancholy story of a love that never had the chance to bloom.

Synopsis

In Tehran in 1958, the most famous violinist of his day loses the will to live after his wife smashes his beloved violin, because no other instrument sounds the same. He goes to bed and doesn’t get up again, lost in memories of the past and in thoughts of his children’s future. Somewhere among those memories waits the love of his life.