Iranian-born French novelist and multi-hyphenate Marjane Satrapi made a well-received transition to filmmaking in 2007 with the animated international hit Persepolis, adapted for the screen from several of her own autobiographical works. The live-action Chicken with Plums marks her second collaboration with animator Vincent Paronnaud, her co-director on both projects. The film, set in Tehran in the late 1950s, centers on a renowned musician (Mathieu Almaric) who, having lost his taste for life, decides to confine himself to his bedroom and wait for death; deep and wild reveries ensue. I recently had the chance to speak one-on-one and in person with the effusive, Paris-based, colorfully dressed Satrapi, about her movies, working with actors for the first time, not liking children, and how she feels about the apocalypse as well as Robert Rodriguez’s Machete. The lively conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the chat.