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- 2007
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 36 m
- 2007
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 36 m
Summary Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of the precocious and outspoken 9-year-old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power--forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, Marjane outsmarts the "social guardi...
Directed By: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Written By: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
- 2007
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 36 m
- 2007
- PG-13
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 36 m
Persepolis
8.5
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Summary Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of the precocious and outspoken 9-year-old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power--forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, Marjane outsmarts the "social guardi...
Directed By: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Written By: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
90
100% Positive
31 Reviews
31 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
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Fascinating memoir of coming of age in Iran.
While avoiding specious bromides about universality, Persepolis insists on communicating with its audience, and insists that communication and empathy are the keys to our survival.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 205 User Ratings
8.5
91% Positive
187 Ratings
187 Ratings
5% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
4% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 205 User Ratings
8.5
91% Positive
187 Ratings
187 Ratings
5% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
4% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
This must be one of the best animated movies of the 2000s. It tells the shocking and heart-breaking story of how war affected psychologically the life of Marjane, the main character. The writing is phenomenal, the animation looks great, and I felt that the story sometimes didn't have a "focus" (I felt it was a little all over the place), but that's not a bad thing, it actually makes the plot pretty unpredictable and I liked that.
This is a fantastic movie, it's easily in my top 10 best animated movies of the 2000s decade. As for movies having similar themes and that I've seen so far, this is much better than The Breadwinner.
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The two main points Persepolis makes are that strife is relative, and all politics are personal.
Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation--though it moves fluidly enough, and its drawings have a handcrafted charm forgotten in the era of the cross-promoted-to-saturation CGI-'toon juggernauts--but because it translates a sensitive, introspective, true-to-life, "adult" comic story into moving pictures.
Persepolis is as modern as tomorrow's headlines and as classic as an ancient myth.
The combination of pen, ink and geopolitical strife have yet to yield anything quite like it.
There is no denying the boldness of Persepolis, both in design and in moral complaint, but there must surely be moments, in Marjane’s life as in ours, that cry out for cross-hatching and the grown-up grayness of doubt.
The compelling biography of Marjane Satrapi, from her precocious childhood till the conversion to a woman, always narrating the harsh, troubled life in homeland. A innovating way to screenplay a graphic novel. One of best opus of adult animation.
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Il faut faire abstraction du "style particulier" de cette "oeuvre", une expression polie et joliment arrangée pour désigner une esthétique en noir et blanc au trait simplet qui n'a précisément rien d'esthétique. Pour faire bref et en résumé : putain que c'est moche ! Mais étant donné le propos ici, il ne s'agit pas d'une tare rédhibitoire.
Car le propos est celui de la vie sous une république islamo-fasciste, la vie quotidienne épinglée au grand jour sous un regard agréablement révolté et cynique. Toutes les anecdotes, tous ces **** "détails" -en dehors des exactions racontées également dont sont coutumières ces dictatures religieuses- tous ces "mini-évènements" en somme qui nous montrent la folie fanatique au jour le jour, oui, tout cela est vraiment édifiant.
Quel dommage alors d'avoir pollué ce récit -qu'on devine autobiographique- avec un tas de considérations que l'on dirait sorties tout droit d'un magazine féminin pour jeunes pétasses. Le ton en est aussi beaucoup trop inspiré, se veut branché et "tendance", comme s'il s'adressait exclusivement à ses copines (des pétasses également sans doute). Cela cisaille le récit, le décrédibilise et l'infantilise énormément (en plus de nous emmerder).
Dommage donc, car ces Nouvelles de Perse avaient du potentiel en tant que témoignage de la barbarie hystéro-religieuse du Moyen-Orient, un potentiel hélas non réalisé.
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This movie is complete communist propaganda targeted towards kids, and it coincidentally has an art and animation style uncannily similar to 40's and 50's soviet propaganda cartoons directer towards kids. It is complete **** badly drawn and animated. DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS WATCH THIS, they will probably be brainwashed into thinking Karl Marx is up there with God and think that communism actually works.
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Production Company
2.4.7. Films,
France 3 Cinéma,
The Kennedy/Marshall Company,
French Connection Animations,
Diaphana Distribution,
Celluloid Dreams,
Sony Pictures Classics,
Soficinéma,
Sofica Europacorp,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
La Région Île-de-France,
Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma,
Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep),
Agence Nationale de Gestion des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (ANGOA)
Release Date Dec 25, 2007
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating PG-13
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
César Awards, France
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
