Chicken with Plums (film)

Chicken with Plums
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Marjane Satrapi Vincent Paronnaud
Produced by	Hengameh Panahi
Screenplay by	Marjane Satrapi Vincent Paronnaud
Based on	Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
Starring	Mathieu Amalric Edouard Baer Maria de Medeiros Golshifteh Farahani Eric Caravaca Chiara Mastroianni
Cinematography	Christophe Beaucarne
Editing by	Stéphane Roche
Studio	Celluloïd Dreams
Distributed by	Le Pacte
Release date(s)	3 September 2011 (2011-09-03) (Venice) 26 October 2011 (2011-10-26) (France)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	France Belgium
Language	French

Chicken with Plums (French: Poulet aux prunes) is a 2011 French drama film directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud. It is based on the graphic novel of the same name. The film premiered in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival on 3 September 2011.^[1] It is scheduled to be released in France on 26 October through Le Pacte.^[2]

Cast

• Isabella Rossellini as Mère de nasser-ali
• Maria de Medeiros as Faranguisse
• Golshifteh Farahani as Irâne
• Mathieu Amalric as Nasser-Ali
• Jamel Debbouze as Houchang
• Chiara Mastroianni as Lili, adulte
• Edouard Baer as Azraël
• Eric Caravaca as Abdi

Reception

Jay Weissberg wrote in Variety that "The same winning balance of seriousness and humor that made Persepolis such a hit works equally well in Chicken With Plums", and elaborated: "What Satrapi and Paronnaud have really achieved is an evocation of a lost world, much as they did in Persepolis. They've beautifully re-created the fiercely proud, Western-leaning life of the Persian middle class of the 1950s, all constructed in Berlin's Babelsberg studios with the kind of atmospheric quality of Fellini's Cinecitta-constructed Romagna[.] ... Though comparisons may be made with the exaggerated stylings of Amelie, the people in Chicken With Plums eventually lose that sense of artificiality, or rather it becomes superseded by real emotion."^[3]

References

1. ^ "Venezia 68: Poulet aux prunes - Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud". labiennale.org. Venice Biennale. http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/lineup/off-sel/venezia68/poulet-aux-prunes.html. Retrieved 2011-08-28. 
2. ^ "Poulet aux prunes" (in French). AlloCiné. Tiger Global. http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=136634.html. Retrieved 2011-08-28. 
3. ^ Weissberg, Jay (2011-09-03). "Chicken With Plums". Variety. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117945948?refCatId=31. Retrieved 2011-09-03. 

External links

• Chicken with Plums at the Internet Movie Database