Chicken with Plums
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Director: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
2011 / 93min / DCP
Satrapi adapted her own graphic novel of the same name for her live-action follow-up to 2007 animated breakthrough Persepolis, a beautifully detailed, tonally eclectic evocation of the disappeared world of the Persian middle class from the 1950s to the eve of the Islamic Revolution, recreated with scrupulous attention to detail and fanciful flourish on the lots of Germany’s Babelsburg Studios. Losing his will to play and therefore to live, musician Mathieu Amalric takes to bed with the intention of waiting for death, and as he wastes away, he is visited by visions of the future and past—including a dream of the woman he’d once hoped to marry, played by a luminous Golshifteh Farahani.
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