(currently in its European release) The Persian story goes, when your heart is filled with sorrow, find a patience stone or syngué sabour that will listen as you talk to it until it can take no more and bursts into pieces, lifting that weight from your shoulders and leaving you free. This well-known legend has been written up any number of times, including by Iranian novelist Sadegh Chubak, and ... more >
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VENICE MOSTRA – Chicken with plums
A disappointing second film by the Persepolis directing team
Marjane Satrapi’s “Poulet aux Prunes” (“Chicken with Plums”) is the French-Iranian filmmaker’s live-action adaptation of her namesake graphic novel. Co-directing once more with Vincent Paronnaud, who also worked on the 2007 film adaptation of “Persepolis,” Satrapi creates a fairly-tale 1950s Tehran as the backdrop for the story of Nasser Ali, a violinist (Satrapi’s uncle, or so ... more >
Golshifteh Farahani
Iran's most recognizable actress lives outside her country
PARIS - The first thing you notice about Golshifteh Farahani is her eyes. Big, intense, and a gaze that is at times uneasy. She wears almost no make-up, her only whim a pair of fashionable sunglasses which she quickly removes after sitting down at the Left Bank bistro where we met. I ask if she’s had time to enjoy the vibrant French cultural life and she raves about a new play by Ariane ... more >
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