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‘Persepolis.’ Animated film about a spirited girl growing up in orthodox Iran. With voices of Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Danielle Darrieux. Writers-directors Marjane Satrapi… ...
As “Persepolis” turns 20, Marjane Satrapi is still fighting censorship, from the right and the left: “The fanaticism of the liberal is not much better than the other fanaticism.” ...
Minutes after I walked out of the theater after watching the new movie “Persepolis,” I remembered “Guernica,” Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece depicting chaos and horror of warfare. Not that Persepolis is ...
Original, fresh, and bursting with emotion, Satrapi's drawings — which feature images of everything daily family life to the horrible violence of war — add another layer to her memoir ...
Based on the author's life and told in spare but dramatically rendered black-and-white comics, it tells the story of a young, precocious, outspoken girl who grows up in Iran during the 1979 ...
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An animated film may seem like an odd forum for a tale about growing up in Iran under a succession of repressive totalitarian regimes. But that’s exactly what “Persepolis” is, a forum in ...
Persepolis started life as a pair of graphic novels written, illustrated, and lived by the 38-year-old Satrapi. The books dealt with her childhood in Tehran, the overthrow of the Shah, ...
From Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. The English translation of the now classic memoir Persepolis by comics artist, painter and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi turned 20 this year — and it's being ...