Trailer Chicken With Plums
Based on a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi.
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.
Readings Current Week
Economic jihad (The Economist)
Iran has undertaken reforms that other governments in the region should envy
Degrees of democracy (The Economist)
Interesting summary about studies dealing with level of education in a country and political participation
Forgotten Polish Exodus to Persia (Washington Post)
A forgotten chapter of World War II
Weekend Reading: SPIEGEL Geschichte - Persien
SPIEGEL GESCHICHTE zeichnet in vier Kapiteln die wechselvolle Historie Persiens nach: vom Aufstieg zur antiken Weltmacht vor über 2500 Jahren bis zur Rückkehr Ajatollah Chomeinis aus dem Exil. Sehr Empfehlenswert für alle Geschichts-interessierte
Was wäre des Kosmos Seele ohne Liebe? Was blieb lebendig in der Welt Getriebe? Wer ohne liebe lebt ist kern-verdorben, mit hundert Leben - lieblos - erstorben.
