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Chicken With Plums (Poulet aux prunes)

Rating:PG-13 (for some drug content, violent images, sensuality and smoking)
Genre:Drama
Release Date:August 17, 2012
Running time:90 minutes
Cast:Isabella Rossellini, Golshifteh Farahani, Maria de Medeiros, Mathieu Amalric, Jamel Debbouze
Director:Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Producer:Hengameh Panahi
Writer:Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Distributor:Sony Pictures Classics

Description: 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 Azraƫl, 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 wonderful story of love which inspired his genius and his music...

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