Chicken with Plums
2011 · Movie · 92 min · ★ 7.0 · 72% critics
After a treasured instrument is destroyed, a celebrated musician loses his will to live and retreats to bed, convinced nothing can replace what he’s lost. As family members try to reach him, he drifts through memories and imagined moments that revisit love, regret, and the choices that shaped his life.
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Details
- Original title
- Poulet aux Prunes
- Years
- 2011
- Release date
- 2011-10-26
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Critic score
- 72/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 (186 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a melancholy, romantic fable with bursts of whimsy and reflection on missed chances, in the vein of It Must Be Heaven or Attila Marcel; Not for you if you want a straightforward, upbeat redemption story.
Pros: poetic, touching story; whimsical, colorful style; strong lead performance | Cons: uneven tonal shifts; episodic, scattered structure; some characters underwritten
Themes
- husband wife relationship
- violin
- violinist
- based on graphic novel
- death
- woman director
Cast & crew
Mathieu Amalric
as Nasser-Ali Khan
Golshifteh Farahani
as Irâne
Édouard Baer
as Azraël
Maria de Medeiros
as Faringuisse
Isabella Rossellini
as Parvine
Éric Caravaca
as Abdi
Chiara Mastroianni
as Lili, adulte
- MB
Mathis Bour
as Cyrus
Christian Friedel
as Cyrus, 22 ans
- EB
Enna Balland
as Lili
Directed by Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi