![]() ![]() The Iran–Iraq War breaks out and the Iranian government takes away even more social freedoms. Anoosh is rearrested and executed for his political beliefs. The Shah is deposed, and elections for a new leading power commence Islamic fundamentalists win the elections and impose strict Islamic law, forcing women to dress "modestly" and wear headscarves. Marji's uncle Anoosh comes to dinner upon release from prison, inspiring Marji with stories of his life on the run from the government. She spends the whole day at the airport, reflecting on her life before her departure to France.ĭuring the 1979 Iranian revolution against the Shah of Iran, Marji's middle-class family participates in the rallies, though she is forbidden from attending. Plot Īt the Paris-Orly Airport in France, Marjane "Marji" Satrapi gets ready to board a plane to Teheran, but changes her mind at the last moment. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 80th Academy Awards, and was nominated for Best Animated Feature. It was released in France and Belgium on 27 June 2007, earning universal praise from critics. It premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, where it co-won the Jury Prize, alongside Silent Light. The film was an international co-production made by companies in France and Iran. The title references the historical city of Persepolis. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. It was written and directed by Satrapi in collaboration with Vincent Paronnaud. In the end, this movie is far from being a movie about Iran, but only tells an individual life, crying for freedom in a country were a woman can't reach it, but transfigured by personal memories and a strong animated point of view, that uses all the techniques and styles a comic-book adaptation could offer.Persepolis is a 2007 adult animated biographical drama film based upon Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. ![]() The childhood period, told in a comic strip style is both funny and melancholic. ![]() The all rapport the difficulties to left your country and to adapt to another world seems for instance very honest and touching. So, paradoxically, the more personal the movie gets, the truer it is. The death of a young man trying to escape the police after a party or the attitude of a man insulting her mother in a parking tells us more about the regime in Iran than the speech the movie sometimes (but not so often) gives us. The personal view on the repercussion of the Islamic repression is way better than this kind of big exposes. It may be true but it seems a little bit simple and even cliché sometimes (see for instance the history of the Shah for all audiences). On the other side, the political scenes and historical point of view that supposedly are the goal of the movie seem to me a little less good than the family or personal souvenirs. You really have the feeling that she relates all this events to praise their memories and who they were. The best parts of it are all about her personal relations, with her grandmother or her uncle. ![]() But if the memories could be easily told alone in front of a blank paper, isn't it harder to be true and sincere when you are surrounded by a all animation crew ? That's the great achievement of the movie : to be true to the comics and therefor, to the life of Marjane. "Persepolis" deals with the life, and especially the youth of Marjane Satrapi, in Iran, during the reign of the Shah and the Islamic revolution. That's the originality of this movie, which is the adaptation of a autobiographical graphic novel by its very author. It's quite unusual for a writer to adapt its own book to the screen, especially when it's a comic-book (well, Frank Miller's done it, but that's another story), and especially when it's an autobiographical comic book. ![]()
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