Directing duo Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi were previously responsible for 2007's Cannes Jury Prize winning hit Persepolis, which was an animated recollection of Satrapi's life during the 1970s Iranian Revolution. 2011 sees the release of their new hotly anticipated feature film Chicken With Plums which, despite the foodie title, is actually another fantastical biographical recollection, this time centring around Satrapi's great uncle Nasser Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric), who was a famed musician in her native Iran.
The trailer sure displays the same cartoonish visual sensibility that pervaded Persepolis despire being live-action this time around. It's clear that this directing team's vision is bold, we hope the story will follow suit.
Chicken With Plums also stars Maria de Medeiros (Pulp Fiction), Chiara Mastroianni (A Christmas Tale) and Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet) and will be in competition at Venice Film Festival and TIFF.
The year is 1958, the city Tehran. Celebrated violinist Nasser Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric) has an unexpected encounter with a longlost love, but she fails to recognize him. He returns home, has an argument with his wife and, most troublingly, discovers that his prized violin has been broken. He's unable to replace it, can't conceive of life without the consolation of music, and soon finds that he can't get out of bed, where he lies locked both in dreams about his childhood and projections of his own children's futures. His reveries lay somewhere between fantasy and oblivion, and quickly assemble into a kind of thriller, riddled with flashbacks and flash-forwards (as well as a vision of a naked Sophia Loren), that illuminates his peculiar persona and the source of his despair.
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