Fortunately, Chicken With Plums does have its pleasures, including Isabella Rossellini as the silkily jaded mother.
Chicken with Plums(Poulet aux Prunes)
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France, Germany, Belgium · 2011
Rated PG-13 · 1h 33m
Director Marjane Satrapi
Starring Mathieu Amalric, Edouard Baer, Maria de Medeiros, Golshifte Farahani
Genre Comedy, Drama
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Nasser-Ali, a talented musician, loses the will to live after his wife breaks his beloved violin during an argument. This is the story of the week that follows, as he searches for a replacement that sounds the same.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The result is captivating, but not exactly moving: Nasser-Ali's grand passion is posited rather than communicated, in spite of Mr. Amalric's exquisitely soulful performance.
Slant Magazine by Elise Nakhnikian
A fable about the damage done when a young couple is forced to part, Chicken with Plums is deeply melancholic, yet so full of humor and humanity that it pulses with life even while tracing the trajectory of a slow suicide.
There's some magic in the grab-bag method, but with all the furious wand-waving, the story itself never gets to cast much of a spell.
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.
You have no idea what's coming next, except that it will be wildly creative and beautiful. These two know how to mix up a very unusual and successful cinematic recipe.
Sit in the front – and don't peer too hard – and Chicken With Plums casts an undeniable spell. It is bold, exotic and distinctive, particularly during the animated angel of death sequence.
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