| Chicken with Plums | |
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| Directed by | Marjane Satrapi Vincent Paronnaud |
| Produced by | Hengameh Panahi |
| Screenplay by | Marjane Satrapi Vincent Paronnaud |
| Based on | Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi |
| Starring | Mathieu Amalric Edouard Baer Maria de Medeiros Golshifteh Farahani Eric Caravaca Chiara Mastroianni |
| Cinematography | Christophe Beaucarne |
| Editing by | Stéphane Roche |
| Studio | Celluloïd Dreams |
| Distributed by | Le Pacte |
| Release date(s) | 3 September 2011 (Venice) 26 October 2011 (France) |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | France Belgium |
| Language | French |
Chicken with Plums (French: Poulet aux prunes) is a 2011 French drama film directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud. It is based on the graphic novel of the same name. The film premiered in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival on 3 September 2011.[1] It was released in France on 26 October through Le Pacte.[2]
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Jay Weissberg wrote in Variety that "The same winning balance of seriousness and humor that made Persepolis such a hit works equally well in Chicken With Plums", and elaborated: "What Satrapi and Paronnaud have really achieved is an evocation of a lost world, much as they did in Persepolis. They've beautifully re-created the fiercely proud, Western-leaning life of the Persian middle class of the 1950s, all constructed in Berlin's Babelsberg studios with the kind of atmospheric quality of Fellini's Cinecitta-constructed Romagna[.] ... Though comparisons may be made with the exaggerated stylings of Amelie, the people in Chicken With Plums eventually lose that sense of artificiality, or rather it becomes superseded by real emotion."[3]