Teheran, 1958. Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death. As he hopes for its arrival, he plunges into deep reveries, with dreams as melancholic as they are joyous, taking him back to his youth and even to a conversation with Azrael, the Angel of Death, who reveals the future of his children... As pieces of the puzzle gradually fit together, the poignant secret of his life comes to light: a wonderful story of love that inspired his genius and his music... -- (C) Sony
Release Date Chicken with Plums Aug 17, 2012 Limited
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Actors For Chicken with Plums

Mathieu Amalric,Edouard Baer,Maria de Medeiros,Golshifteh Farahani,Eric Caravaca,Chiara Mastroianni,Mathis Bour,Enna Balland,Didier Flamand,Serge Avedikian,Rona Hartner,Isabella Rossellini,Frédéric Saurel,Christian Friedel,Julia Goldstern,Julia Camps y Salat,Jaouen Gouevic,Timothé Riquet,Angus Boulaire,François Legrand

Genres Chicken with Plums : Drama,Art House & International,Comedy

Visitor Ranting & Critics For Chicken with Plums

User Ranting Chicken with Plums : 3.6
User Percentage For Chicken with Plums : 71 %
User Count Like for Chicken with Plums : 1,700
All Critics Ranting For Chicken with Plums : 6.9
All Critics Count For Chicken with Plums : 56
All Critics Percentage For Chicken with Plums : 73 %

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Movie Overview For Chicken with Plums
Nasser-Ali, a talented musician, loses the will to live after his wife breaks his beloved violin during an argument. He searches for a replacement, and finding none that sounds quite the same, he vows to die. Eight days later, he does. This is the story of his last week of life, where we see flashbacks and flash forwards of his previous life and his children's futures. We also see appearances of a nude Sophia Loren as well as the angel of death, Azarel. As we see his life, we realize exactly why he chose to end it and the profundity of this choice.

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Review For Chicken with Plums

Resurrects the spirit of Middle Eastern fables, albeit with a French twist.
Joe Williams-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This dreamy, visually inventive Iranian drama functions on so many levels of reality and obsession that it almost ceases to entertain.
John Hartl-Seattle Times

Chicken is a movie that begins with a crescendo and doesn't sustain its lyricism.
Carrie Rickey-Philadelphia Inquirer

"Predictability" is not in Satrapi and Paronnaud's vocabulary, and that is no small thing in this or any other movie era. But the whole those parts form never exceeds their sum.
Mark Feeney-Boston Globe

"Chicken With Plums" is a whimsical, sad, diverting and altogether delightful exploration of how cinema can benefit, not only from glancing back at its own past, but by staying open to parallel forms of presentation and play.
Ann Hornaday-Washington Post

This highly stylized, often beautiful rumination on life and art and the choices we make just sort of lies there, waiting to expire.
John Anderson-Newsday

These moments give flavor, but fail to cohere into any particular taste.
Violet Lucca-Film Comment Magazine

unfurls in a dazzling set of sequences and montages that demonstrates everything shown to us - like marriage and society itself - may not be as it seems, or what it should have been.
Matt Kelemen-Las Vegas CityLife

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.
Eric Kohn-indieWIRE

On a scene-by-scene basis, much of Chicken With Plums delivers satisfactorily, but it adds up to much less than the sum of its many parts.
Nathan Southern-TV Guide's Movie Guide

There are pleasures to be found in Chicken with Plums to be certain, but we'd hope for something a little more satisfying next time out from the directing team.
Oliver Lyttelton-The Playlist

...an admirable trip down the rabbit hole of a lonely man's mind and inspiration, but it loses its way about halfway through the movie and feels like a series of inspired, lovely short films, held together by the barest of threads.
Eric Melin-Scene-Stealers.com

... uneven blend of whimsy and surrealism that's visually compelling but narratively flat.
Todd Jorgenson-Cinemalogue.com

Takes its time creating sad beauty
Robert Denerstein-Movie Habit

[Amalric] anchors Satrapi and Paronnaud's magical visual range and an emotional journey that zips from ecstasy to tragedy and back again.
Sean Means-Salt Lake Tribune

Satrapi and Parronnaud give us clues but no solution. The fun, for those of us who like fairy tales, is in guessing.
Lawrence Toppman-Charlotte Observer

Directors Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi use various cinematic tricks to examine their protagonist and his life. Voice-over narration, animation and music are a few of the options with which they compose their narration.
Bob Bloom-Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

It's fascinating as an offbeat storytelling exercise.
Mike Russell-Oregonian

Tepid stew.
James Verniere-Boston Herald

Fluctuating between the extraordinary and the dull, with sections of narrative explication and tangents, Chicken With Plums can be as frustrating as it is ambitious. It's more like Chicken With Plums -- and the Kitchen Sink.
Marjorie Baumgarten-Austin Chronicle

There are a few writing problems and the melancholy mood weighs heavily, but Amalric's performance remains the film's rallying point.
Kelly Vance-East Bay Express