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Persepolis is a 2007 adult animated biographical drama film written and directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, based on Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. [4] [5] [6] The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The title references the historical city of ...
The film begins in an airport where Marjane Satrapi is unable to board a plane to Iran. Sitting down to smoke a cigarette, she remembers her life as a girl in 1978 at the age of 9. As a child, Marji is a young girl living in Tehran with dreams of being a prophet and an emulator of Bruce Lee.
Persepolis is a spectacular movie, an endless stream of pungent experiences—both ordinary and calamitous—that made up Satrapi’s childhood. These events are rendered in stark black and white images and punctuated with her sharply astute and self-aware observations, delivered in voice-over by French actress Chiara Mastroianni, whose dark ...
May 23, 2007 · Persepolis is an animated feature by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud based on Satrapi’s graphic novel about her growing up in Mullah-ridden Iran during the Islamic Revolution and the...
Dec 25, 2007 · “Persepolis” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has some scenes of violence and sexuality, for the most part discreetly and obliquely drawn. PERSEPOLIS. Opens in Manhattan on Tuesday.
- Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
A timely and terrifying noir that takes on systemic abuse and corruption in Iran
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Jan 21, 2007 · By Kristin Hohenadel. Jan. 21, 2007. PARIS. MARJANE SATRAPI’S life was flashing before her eyes. There she was, a mischievous girl on the streets of Tehran, buying contraband records during the...
