A moving, funny, personal yet universal tale of one woman's life growing up amid political turbulence, animated with concise artistry.
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04/25/08
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Persepolis (2007)
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Reviews Counted:130
Fresh:125
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.
Theatrical Release:Dec 25, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $4,293,233
Synopsis: NEW YORK PREMIERE AT NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2007 (Limited) PERSEPOLIS presents a deeply personal coming-of-age tale about finding one's place in the world. Based on her bestselling graphic... [More]
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The film has to simplify the story, but it allows more breadth to develop one lovely character particular, Satrapi's beautiful grandmother.
09/06/07
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10/18/08
This is 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.
08/31/08
Persepolis austere as it may look, is full of warmth and surprise, alive with humor and a fierce independence of spirit.
12/26/07
Top Critic[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.
05/01/08
A film as personal and eccentric as Satrapi's original book, a black-and-white, hand-drawn memoir of growing up and away from Iran.
01/25/08
With deceptively simple, mostly black and white animation, the filmmakers take us through a life story that is anything but simple
08/14/08
By turns whimsical, satirical and poignant to the point of heartbreak.
12/19/07
Top CriticThe 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.
04/25/08
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.
02/21/08
The characters are so rich and so human that they transcend the simple animation.The vocal performances also help give the film universal appeal.
01/29/08
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, were all pretty much the same.
09/08/08
Persepolis is astonishing, a revelation realized in masterful monochrome strokes.
02/14/08
Persepolis may be a crudely drawn, two-dimensional cartoon, but it packs more genuine emotion than plenty of live-action dramas.
01/17/08
Quite simply one of the best book adaptations and animated films to have come out of Europe in recent years.
07/21/07
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.
02/28/08
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.
03/01/08
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01/04/08
A reminder that even the most complex situations, identities and stories are heartbreakingly simple.
12/26/07
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