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Captivating movie !

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

A style so simplistic, yet all characters are able to be identified. Carrying a story with twists and turns, as any life does, this story makes me feel like I could be her, but I also wish to meet her. Liked it.

The following story is my imagined encounter I had a dream that would be feasible for a Stalinist version of Persepolis, since the only people who would be biking, skating, or inline skate street sport partakers in California would be a young person who is probably educated with a Common Core that is close to French abstract studies. It is highly possible as a eclipsed review since the only person that would be forgiven passively for their imagining that Persepolis or the war in Tehran, Iran in the years depicted in the war movie would have top be someone who feels their life is in a war to stay in a dreamily state they perceive as real, so in that state, they could even imagine that the war was made up and that they are a person who was drafted into some sort of war just in order to realize they were the female narrator in the story who merely yearned to receive their university education: I was in a pit bull-riven area of San Leandro, CA and I got so afraid I would be mulled by one but it turns out that there was one fence that looked closed but it was open and two large borzoi dogs who look very smart, private and caring after each other, and were deep black/brown redhead dog couple they used their nose to pry the open fence a bit more open but then the one closest to the outside of the fence used it's nose to hold the fence a hinge close except for a ruler length and it didn't attack me, or the couple borzoi did not because they saw I was a woman who was skateboarding and who had stopped and I didn't go forward so I am holding at my mercy a few skateboarders and inline skaters in my neighborhood since I won't go back to where the dogs are and on top of that, they may just be stupid youth who will be mauled by the dog(s) in that area instead, and so because the universe knows that, the spirits in them that are good and want to be a body that will survive because they know they will be at a higher chance of getting killed by their body master's depression after they get pulled apart by the dogs for not being me... so I'm trying to see if I can suck the spirits out of them have a better body or master or whatever u call it.Sun 8:31pm I lied I made that up because I had a nightmare that Tehran of Persepolis in the Iranian war was a made up event called Stalinism since it could be that a person could have just made up Tehran of that year that they as a man got drafted and the main character in Persepolis got to study in France! Since it would make since that if a person who is in a neighborhood with dogs, at the beginning of Persepolis they release dogs to run after the dude and so he gets attacked but in my lie I just told you I am a ghost that always haunts and taunts the person who is imagining a made up Tehran of Iran in the war years, since only a person who is unconscious is not guilty of thinking that their reality is made up to any extent or brink that would somehow manufacture to their brain that they are still in the real world and their fantasy a real reality they live in real life and the person who saw the two borzoi and was spared, well they keep taunting this poor person hooked up to a ventilator since, if it was just one memory of their being mauled apart by pit bulls then, technically that vision of the smart borzoi would be their saving grace in an alternate universe where they were not mauled and left in a coma for the rest of their life.

Poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.The graphic novel "Persepolis" was very widely read. In fact, a number of college courses required it. It is an excellent look at the difference between what people think of Iran and what being from Iran actually means for those who lived through the last generation.The film adds so much more with the music, the inflection, and just really getting a human quality that cannot be expressed fully on paper. The animation stays true to the original art, really bringing out its strengths. It made me wan to read the book again and learn more about the author's royal lineage!

While animation is an art form primarily associated with children's entertainment, there are more than a few animated films which deal with more mature themes and are geared towards an older audience. PERSEPOLIS is one such film. Co-directed by Marjane Satrapi, who based this on her experiences as a young girl growing up in Iran, it tells a story about the struggle to find one's identity in a rapidly changing world. In Marjane's case, her formative years took place amid the chaotic years of the Islamic Revolution when the US-backed Shah was overthrown by populist revolt and an Islamic Republic established in its place. Even though communist revolutionaries, such as her uncle, were imprisoned under the Shah's rules, the Islamic Republic that replaced it was in some ways even more repressive. As a way of escaping this, Marjane is sent off to a French school in Vienna but she eventually comes back to her family after bad experiences leave her alone and almost destitute. Yet, the Iran she returns to is even more different than the one she grew up in and left before. Ultimately, this is a simultaneously complex and simple look at Iranian life through the eyes of a young woman. It's complex in the sense that Marjane has conflicted feelings about the country of her ancestors, yet simple because it is presented through the eyes of someone who has yet to find themselves. This film is based on a graphic novel, and the mostly black-and-white animation style reproduces this look faithfully while also adding a sense of childlike wonder. It was a simple, yet beautiful, way to tell an important story. I hesitate to say that Marjane's story is representative of all Iranians' experience, yet it is valuable precisely because it is a personal experience. The story of her life growing up is tragic and hopeful, sad and yet still not without humor. This roller-coaster of emotions and unique look at an oft misunderstood culture are the film's strongest selling points, aside from the top-notch animation and score. For viewers looking to expand their horizons a bit, PERSEPOLIS has everything you could possibly want from a great film: action, romance, tragedy, humor, etc. It has it all, and most importantly it provides unique cultural insight. Highly recommended.