If you missed the wonderful, heartbreaking animation Persepolis in the busy cinematic year of 2007, you’ll want to remedy that and get ready for their next feature. Directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud are premiering their next film Chicken with Plums at Toronto next month and we have our first trailer. Their keen visual eyes seems to transfer to live-action here, and while it is entirely in French, the trailer stills confirms my desire to check this out. See it below via Twitch for the film starring Mathieu Amalric, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros and Golshifteh Farahani.
Synopsis:
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.
Chicken With Plums will premiere at TIFF, which runs from Sept 8th to 18th. We also posted a few images, which you can view here.
Were you a Persepolis fan? What are your thoughts on this trailer?