Chicken with Plums
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70 out of 100

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  • Starring: Edouard Baer, Golshifteh Farahani, Maria de Medeiros, Mathieu Amalric
  • Summary: Teheran, 1958. Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death. As he hopes for its arrival, he plunges into deep reveries, with dreams as melancholic as they are joyous, taking him back to his youth and even to a conversation with Azraël, the Angel of Death, who reveals the future of his children. As pieces of the puzzle gradually fit together, the poignant secret of his life comes to light: a story of love which inspired his genius and his music. (Sony Pictures Classics)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 18 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 24
  3. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    Aug 22, 2012
    100
    A grand, romantic life story about love, loss, regret and the sadness that can be evoked by a violin - not only through music, but through the instrument itself. It is all melancholy and loss, and delightfully comedic, with enough but not too much magic realism. The story as it stands could be the scenario for an opera.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    Aug 16, 2012
    80
    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.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Chris Packham
    Aug 14, 2012
    60
    The evocation of passionate love is palpable, what with Amalric's sad longing and Farahani's Nobel Prize–winning face and everything, and the honest undercurrent of melancholy keeps the whole thing from becoming unmoored.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    Sep 6, 2012
    25
    An agony of bad plotting and whimsical, lifeless scenes.

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