Comments on: Venice ’11 Review: ‘Persepolis’ Follow-Up ‘Chicken With Plums’ Is Amiable & Pretty, But Twee & Thin

By: Read It & Weep

Read It & Weep — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:55:13 +0000

Readers here are beyond embarrassing and desperate. This film has been SAVAGED in reviews. The Weinstein Company, mark my words, are going to take this off their Oscar 2011 list and dump it into TBD 2012 because they know it has zero Oscar chances, you watch.

So fucking protective are fans, they\’ll try and do anything to change the narrative of reviews from Venice and or try and think there\’s some bias going on. Have you guys noticed how many posts they did about this film in advance? A hella lot more than most did. Look for Simon Dang who writes for this site. He must have done half a dozen stories in anticipation. I think it was even on their most anticipated of 2011 list.

But keep dreaming on and twisting and turning in the wind if you want, ain\’t gonna help.

By: bai

bai — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:55:11 +0000

Alireza Khatami!??? come back to malaysia!!! we miss you 😉

By: irmavep

irmavep — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:55:11 +0000

\”…something doesn’t quite ring right about the the casting of non-Arabic actors in Middle Eastern roles.\”

Iranians are not Arab. Good lord, this is not an obscure fact. My kingdom for some basic knowledge of the Middle East in film reviews!

By: Alireza

Alireza — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:55:11 +0000

The reviewer has obviously very limited and stereotypical idea of Iranian looks, Basically because there\’s no such thing as Iranian or Persian looks. Iran is a country with so many different ethnics(Kurd, Turk, Arab, Balouch, Fars…) that you can not possibly imagine a typical Iranian face more than typical American face. Just search Iranian actors and you can see so many different looks.
Sorry if my English is bad.