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  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 33 m

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 ...

Directed By: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

Written By: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 33 m

Chicken with Plums

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
69
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
7.2
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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 ...

Directed By: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

Written By: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
69
75% Positive
18 Reviews
21% Mixed
5 Reviews
4% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
18 Reviews
21% Mixed
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4% Negative
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100
Aug 22, 2012
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.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
83
Aug 16, 2012
While visually scrumptious, the movie struggles to reach a greater profundity that it never quite obtains, but its childlike emulation of a grand tragedy is indelibly precious.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 4, 2012
It's fascinating as an offbeat storytelling exercise.
By M. E. Russell FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 4, 2012
A fable about the damage done when a young couple is forced to part, Chicken with Plums is deeply melancholic, yet so full of humor and humanity that it pulses with life even while tracing the trajectory of a slow suicide.
By Elise Nakhnikian FULL REVIEW
67
Sep 20, 2012
Fluctuating between the extraordinary and the dull, with sections of narrative explication and tangents, Chicken With Plums can be as frustrating as it is ambitious. It's more like Chicken With Plums – and the Kitchen Sink.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 14, 2012
There's some magic in the grab-bag method, but with all the furious wand-waving, the story itself never gets to cast much of a spell.
By Eric Hynes FULL REVIEW
25
Sep 6, 2012
An agony of bad plotting and whimsical, lifeless scenes.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
7.2
77% Positive
10 Ratings
15% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
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77% Positive
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15% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Production Company Celluloid Dreams, The Manipulators, uFilm, Studio 37, Le Pacte, Lorette Production, Film(s), Arte France Cinéma, ZDF/Arte, Cinémage 5, uFund, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Canal+, CinéCinéma, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Umedia
Release Date Aug 17, 2012
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating PG-13
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Website http://chicken.gaga.ne.jp/
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Awards

CinEuphoria Awards
• 4 Nominations
Dublin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
São Paulo International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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