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Persepolis (2007)

Animation | 95 minutes
3,64 622 votes

Genre: Animation / Drama

Duration: 95 minuten

Country: France / United States

Directed by: Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi

Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve and Danielle Darrieux

IMDb score: 8,0 (104.544)

Releasedate: 27 June 2007

Persepolis plot

"Based on the original graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi"

The story about Marjane who at the age of 9 in Iran is confronted with the Islamic Revolution. The fundamentalists force the women to wear veils and imprison many. Despite this social terror, Marjane manages to discover punk, Iron Maiden and Abba and later she is sent to Austria by her parents to go to school safely. Although she is accepted after some time, she decides to go back to the tyrannical rule of Iran, because it simply feels like her home, and decides to continue to air her opinion about what she sees.

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starbright boy (moderator films)

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The drawing style is quite quirky and often beautiful, but I can't help but think it would work better on paper. The film draws its strength from the fact that it is an autobiography and it is easy to empathize with the main character. In terms of narration, little too sharp edges. Sometimes a heavy moment, but shortly afterwards there is always a lighter piece to compensate for it. That sometimes feels a bit transparent. Nevertheless, a fascinating film with idiosyncratic animations. Although I don't see a masterpiece in it.

3.5*

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eRCee

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Smart choice to do this in animation. Because I sometimes have the impression that animation films are more accepted when it comes to the way of storytelling, or the content.

Persepolis is no exception to this. I had no problem with the simplicity of the drawing style, it does create a funny atmosphere. But I found the story below average, the storytelling poor and the characters empty. It is not surprising that Satrapi has apparently taken her own experiences as the subject: especially in the second part Persepolis gets bogged down in a summary of events, the retelling of what really happened, without any relevant storyline. can be detected. And what does Marjane actually want? Why should we sympathize with her? How does her fate differ from millions of others, or vice versa, why is she so exemplary? It has not become clear to me in any case, Marjane as a character remained a kind of shadow that showed me the bad events in Iran.

In addition, I found the film simplistic (the looks of those bearded men at Marjane's speech in the lecture hall, boy) and sentimental (lengthy sequences of a girl trudging along the street with her head bowed). The picture painted of Iran is black and white; you have the fanatics and the good guys. Anyone who has seen the documentary series 'Our man in Tehran' knows that life is first and foremost normal in Iran, just like everywhere.

Final annoyance: that 'Eye of the tiger' scene, terrible, what was the artistic or substantive thought behind it?

No, it started well, but then the irritation and boredom set in, and my movie mood ended rather low. Two stars is actually quite generous for this.

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