Chicken with Plums

In this visually striking and dreamily compelling film, a renowned musician's life is reduced to its most basic form as he awaits death in bed after his beloved violin was broken by his wife. As he reflects on his past and future, images play out before him, revealing the life he lived and the choices that led him there. A beautiful re-creation of 1950s Persia, with its fiercely proud and Western-leaning middle class, "Chicken with Plums" balances seriousness and humor to evoke a lost world, but ultimately leaves the viewer heartbroken.