Has that larger-than-life Technicolor feel to it.

| Feb 12, 2024

The limitless resources of the seventh art end up playing in favor of making the production a better embodiment of the story than we could find in its original vehicle. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 23, 2020

It's undeniably beautiful, but it also feels awfully familiar, with the lighthearted mix of comedy and melancholy veering closer to Jeunet's territory than Satrapri's singular wit.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 6, 2019

As sumptuously gratifying as their film is, there's a definite inadequacy in its naïve considerations of love and commitment that casts a hollow pallor over the proceedings. But that's not to say you won't be enchanted by the tragic melancholy.

| Jul 30, 2019

Chicken with Plums takes the audience into a magical and wonderful space. It provokes a lot of laughs, but was also the only time I saw audience members crying openly and unashamedly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2019

Satrapi and Paronnaud have developed a signature style - bittersweet in tone and episodic in function, beginning and ending some scenes as though they were ellipses with a slow fade in or out to black.

| Jan 8, 2019

Satrapi is one of the best-known expatriates, thanks to her graphic novels. But she's given us the least insight into a country that remains in the headlines, and will likely continue to do so.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 21, 2018

This is an interesting voyage to live in a time and a place.

| Aug 10, 2018

A beautiful bummer, a deeply-felt and sumptuous movie...

| Jul 3, 2018

It's not necessary to pick up on all the breadcrumbs Satrapi plants here from her previous tale to enjoy this dreamy film.

| Oct 5, 2016

As whimsical a film about a suicidal old man as you'll find.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Aug 17, 2014

Suffused with longing and whimsy, Chicken with Plum's tone can get a little stretched; it can be a touch twee, even cautious. But mostly this adaptation retains a sad dreaminess and a melancholy comic-ness without ever getting cartoonish.

| Dec 27, 2013

These moments give flavor, but fail to cohere into any particular taste.

| Jun 28, 2013

unfurls in a dazzling set of sequences and montages that demonstrates everything shown to us - like marriage and society itself - may not be as it seems, or what it should have been.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 21, 2013

While visually scrumptious, the movie struggles to reach a greater profundity that it never quite obtains, but its childlike emulation of a grand tragedy is indelibly precious.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 14, 2013

On a scene-by-scene basis, much of Chicken With Plums delivers satisfactorily, but it adds up to much less than the sum of its many parts.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2013

There are pleasures to be found in Chicken with Plums to be certain, but we'd hope for something a little more satisfying next time out from the directing team.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 14, 2013

...an admirable trip down the rabbit hole of a lonely man's mind and inspiration, but it loses its way about halfway through the movie and feels like a series of inspired, lovely short films, held together by the barest of threads.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 11, 2013

... uneven blend of whimsy and surrealism that's visually compelling but narratively flat.

| Jan 14, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 22, 2012