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Persepolis (2007)

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Reviews Counted:144

Fresh:139

Rotten:5

Average Rating:8.2/10

Consensus: Persepolis is an emotionally powerful, dramatically enthralling autobiographical gem, and the film's simple black-and-white images are effective and bold.

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Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for mature thematic material including violent images, sexual references, language and brief drug content

Runtime: 1 hr. 35 min.

Genre: Drama, Animation

Theatrical Release: Dec 25, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $4.3M

Synopsis: Marjane is precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl who was nine years old during the Islamic Revolution when the fundamentalists first take... Marjane is precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl who was nine years old during the Islamic Revolution when the fundamentalists first take power--forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. She cleverly outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden, while living with the terror of government persecution and the Iran/Iraq war. Then Marjane's journey moves on to Austria where, as a teenager, her parents send her to school in fear for her safety and, she has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape. Marjane eventually gains acceptance in Europe, but finds herself alone and horribly homesick, and returns to Iran to be with her family, although it means putting on the veil and living in a tyrannical society. After a difficult period of adjustment, she enters art school and marries, continuing to speak out against the hypocrisy she witnesses. At age 24, she realizes that while she is deeply Iranian, she cannot live in Iran. She then makes the heartbreaking decision to leave her homeland for France, optimistic about her future, shaped indelibly by her past. [More]

Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn

Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn, Iggy Pop, Simon Abkarian, Danielle Darrieux, Gabrielle Lopes, François Jerosme , Amethyste Frezignac, Gabrielle Lopes Benites, Tilly Mandelbrot

Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Screenwriter: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Producer: Marc-Antoine Robert, Xavier Rigault
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

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Extremely entertaining, often moving and an eye-opener to those of us who know little about Iran.

Full Review Source: Cinema Autopsy | comment Comment
Jul 6, 2010
Thomas Caldwell
Thomas Caldwell
Cinema Autopsy

Based on her own graphic novel, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s film is a masterly work.

Full Review Source: Future Movies UK | comment Comment
Jul 6, 2010
Coco Forsythe
Coco Forsythe
Future Movies UK

A moving, intimate, complex, visually beautiful black-and-white story.

Full Review Source: Movies.com | comment Comment
Jul 6, 2010
Dave White
Dave White
Movies.com

A gentle dance performed at the edge of the abyss

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
Aug 27, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

Marjane learns that there’s no place like home. And we Americans watching realize that people have homes even in the heart of the Axis of Evil.

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
Apr 23, 2009
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

un récit d'une remarquable sensibilité s'imposant comme une oeuvre de marque au sein d'un genre que nous n'avons pas encore l'habitude de voir sous un jour aussi politisé

Full Review Source: Panorama | comment Comment
Oct 29, 2008
Jean-François Vandeuren
Jean-François Vandeuren
Panorama

Here is an adaptation so inspired, so simple and so frictionless in its transformation of the source material that it's almost a miracle.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

An exuberant autobiographical film and dark-horse contender for an animated feature Oscar.

Full Review Source: CNN.com | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Tom Charity
Tom Charity
CNN.com
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The film's nuanced view of social issues is complemented by lovely black-and-white animation work that blends Islamic motifs into a sort of Yellow Submarine-ish world.

Full Review Source: NPR.org | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Bob Mondello
Bob Mondello
NPR.org
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Satrapi's life story is exhilarating and heartbreaking; filtering political events through her youthful experience of them creates a very different, very human picture of Iran.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

The subtlety of the interplay among the three generations of women is extraordinary.

Full Review Source: Slate | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Dana Stevens
Dana Stevens
Slate
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Effortlessly [juggles] comedy and drama to create a refreshing take on the classic coming-of-age tale unlike anything we've ever seen before.

Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Jason Zingale
Jason Zingale
Bullz-Eye.com

Persepolis is a superb film about a young girl's coming of age amidst war, fascism and family tragedy.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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A moving adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about a girl growing up in Iran amid the upheavals of the 1980s and ’90s.

Full Review Source: Montreal Gazette | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Brendan Kelly
Brendan Kelly
Montreal Gazette

It's striking how much emotion Satrapi is able to convey through these blocky drawings, which are simple but powerfully chosen.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Susan Tavernetti
Susan Tavernetti
Palo Alto Weekly

No review available.

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Oct 18, 2008
Reel.com

Persepolis is a funny, touching, occasionally frightening and altogether engrossing description of her life between 1978 and 1994.

Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Jean Lowerison
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

You will laugh, you will be moved to tears, and you may even come away thinking the human race might actually survive without killing each other off, because there are stories like [this] to remind us that, deep down, we’re all pretty much the same.

Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | comment Comment
Sep 8, 2008
Beverly Berning
Beverly Berning
culturevulture.net

The animation absolutely won me over--Satrapi's art style is simple, engaging, and cool all at once.

Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com | comment Comment
Sep 2, 2008
Heather Huntington
Heather Huntington
ReelzChannel.com
 
 
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