3.5/4

So satisfying because it works on a few complimentary levels: as a coming-of-age story tracking innocence to experience, as an accounting of revolutionary and feminist struggles, and as an artful visual experience in cartoon form. [Blu-Ray]

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06/23/08

B

Gives the viewer a glimpse into a foreign world, but its strongest suit is not depicting what is foreign, but what is common to all of humanity.

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05/23/08

N/A

As a reminder that Iran is a complex society with a long tradition of cosmopolitan interchange with the West, Persepolis could hardly be more welcome. As a narrative, however, the film sometimes loses its way.

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05/10/08

5/5

[I]t's that balance of quotidian personal struggles taking place alongside the larger scope of political upheaval and repression that makes Persepolis such a riveting film.

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05/01/08

4/5

Persepolis makes this most difficult of subjects at once watchable, accesible, and ultimately unforgettable.

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04/25/08

4/5

The predominantly black-and-white animation is used to amusing effect as Satrapi gently pokes fun at her youthful exuberance and innocence, making serious political points easy to swallow. The lack of sense of direction is the film's only let-down.

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04/25/08

4/6

A delightful, curious film that indulges in both the personal and the political and provides a potted history of modern Iran through one woman’s experience.

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04/25/08

4/5

The monochrome animation is stark and beautiful, and Marjane’s an appealing narrator. Often hilarious, sometimes tragic, this may be low-tech, but it’s high-class.

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04/25/08

4.5/5

Persepolis is very different and bold, beautiful and moving.

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03/29/08

2.5/4

The political component is understated, but then it suddenly slips in and snaps at you.

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03/27/08

N/A

A lot of beautiful animated sequences that could only come to life in movement . . . We've had this incredible wave of films giving us Iran from an insider's point of view--maybe now it's time for the exile's.

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03/01/08

N/A

An art-house cartoon about war and revolution as seen through the eyes of a potential Blossom is more than just unique -- it's rich, eye-catching, educational, and, yes, crowd-pleasing.

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02/28/08

7/10

Despite the grimness of its subject matter, Persepolis is a relentlessly charming, persistently amusing tale about patriotism, familial love and the need to carry on, even in the face of madness and absurdity.

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02/28/08

5/5

Serve para ilustrar como uma técnica historicamente associada a filmes infantis vem criando obras que representam o que de melhor o Cinema mundial tem oferecido ao público mais maduro.

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02/26/08

3.5/4

at times uproariously funny, and it has moments of beautifully wild abandon

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02/26/08

N/A

what might in other hands have been ethnographic agitprop is instead an engaging, character-based tragicomedy, grounded in what might be called the politics of real people.

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02/21/08

4.5/5

Satrapi is ultimately less an Iranian girl than she's like any young person anywhere.

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02/19/08

B-

Has more intelligence than the usual animation.

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02/16/08