![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nasser Ali's wife also shares the blame for breaking the treasured violin her husband was given by his master ( Didier Flamand). How could she reject him? How can she tell him, 20 years later, that she has no memory of him? A closing scene is hopelessly sad. We see some of the events that led him to this extreme, but the film has no bad people, except for Irane's father (Serge Avedikiane), who angrily denies the violinist the hand of his daughter. The extraordinary cast also includes Maria de Medeiros as Faringuisse, the wife his family made him marry Golshifteh Farahani as Irane, the clockmaker's daughter who is the love of his life Edouard Baer as Azrael, the Angel of Death who is the narrator, and Chiara Mastroianni as Lili, Nasser Ali's daughter as an adult.Īn unashamedly romantic score by Olivier Bernet deepens the film's emotions, as Nasser Ali briefly feels the ecstasy of love and then descends into a lifelong depression that leads to him going to bed and deciding to die. ![]() "Chicken With Plums" was shot on soundstages in Berlin, creating an intimate Tehran that is sometimes enhanced by animation and by several clouds of smoke, one that a savant tells Nasser Ali contains the soul of his mother ( Isabella Rossellini). ![]()
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