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  • 12/14/2014
"Poulet aux prunes" (original title)
93 min - Comedy | Drama - 26 October 2011 (France)

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.

Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Writers: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Edouard Baer, Maria de Medeiros
Transcript
00:00It was the autumn of 1958. I was passing by Teheran.
00:15I met a certain Nasser Ali, whose story I am going to tell you.
00:24I remember the first time I heard you play.
00:27I told myself that I had never heard anything so beautiful.
00:30I'm not selling it to you, I'm giving it to you.
00:32Not now. From now on, you are a great musician.
00:40Tomorrow I'm leaving for Roche.
00:42Who's going to keep it?
00:43You knew it when you married me, that I was an artist.
00:45An artist! What a great deal!
00:54I will never forgive you.
00:58For Nasser Ali, it was the beginning of a long journey of twenty years to the four corners of the world.
01:04Mom!
01:28Nasser Ali
01:42Hello, Nasser Ali.
01:50Coming soon
01:57Coming soon

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