2007 · animation · drama · biography
Persepolis
Directed by Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi1h 35m2007
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
Our read: Persepolis (2007) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded animation · drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, steady, measured animation / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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