Persepolis 2007 M

When
6.00 pm, Fri 4 Dec 2015 (96 mins)
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Gallery of Modern Art, Cinema A
About
'In Persepolis, French-Iranian émigré Marjane Satrapi adapts her autobiographical graphic novel into a stylish and incisive hand-drawn animated feature about a young girl growing up in Tehran. By turns humorous and tragic, the film integrates the personal with the political in its portrayal of the life of a spirited young girl born under the Shah but growing up in the Islamic Republic. Persepolis champions resistance on a personal level, something learns by example from many members of her intellectual family – most inescapably from the political resistance by her uncle who was persecuted under both regimes and ultimately executed for his convictions, and from her beloved grandmother's individualistic moral resistance. Consequently, we see the young Marjane debating issues with both Karl Marx and God! Although the film employs some of the popular ciphers for women living in the Islamic Republic – headscarves and the moral police, speaking out against propaganda in class, and embracing rock music and Western clothing – it transcends these codes with an astuteness born of first-hand experience. No less incisive is the representation of Marjane's alienation in Austria, where her parents send her when they begin to fear for the safety of their rebellious only child; when she returns to Iran after some years abroad, she encounters the identity crisis that confronts many émigrés no longer sure where they belong. Persepolis has received boisterous popular and critical applause – on aesthetic grounds for its striking black-and-white animation, and for the sensitivity and authenticity of its story, which has resonated among expatriate Iranians.' Anne Démy Geroe, Brisbane International Film Festival
Production Credits
- Director /Script: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
- Year: 2007
- Runtime: 96 minutes
- Countries: France, United States
- Languages: English, French, German, Persian
- Subtitles: English
- Sound: Dolby Digital
- Colour: Black & White
- Screening Format: 35mm, Dolby Digital