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[Northeastern News] Review: 'Persepolis' warms, enlightens - The Inside: "Persepolis" is an inspiring and moving film directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Peronnaud, based on the renowned best selling graphic novel by Satrapi. The animated movie follows the life of a young girl in Tehran, Iran, .

[Amazon.co.uk: Hot Future Releases in Books > Biography] Persepolis: Marjane Satrapi: Amazon.co.uk: Books: Told through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive black-and-white artwork), the story shows how young Marjane learns about her family history and how it is entwined with the history of Iran, and watches her liberal parents cope with a fundamentalist regime that gets increasingly rigid as it gains more power. Outspoken and intelligent, Marjane chafes at Iran's increasingly conservative interpretation of Islamic law, especially as she grows into a bright and independent teenager.

[Spiked] More than a black-and-white story | spiked: Persepolis could have simply been a sweet coming-of-age tale or a worthy Third World film, but Satrapi and Paronnaud (who is also a comic-book artist) manage to avoid the generic limitation of both thanks to marvellous animation and wit. Satrapi’s four comic books combined political history with personal memoir, all illustrated in thick black-on-white ink.

[colesmithey.com :: independent voice of film criticism :: reviews] Cole Smithey - Reviews: Persepolis: Marjane entertains fantasies of chatting with God and Karl Marx and it’s during these witty nocturnal conversations that we comprehend the young girl’s precocious intellect and earnest desire to connect with the world on a personal level. For a moment she’s like a character from a Peanuts cartoon, and the connection to Charles Schultz’s iconic personalities is helped along by American pop culture references like Abba or the theme from "Rocky."

[MatchFlick] Persepolis Review by Matthew (4.5 Stars) | MatchFlick: Even more strangely, Marjane Satrapi bases it on semi-autobiographical graphic novels. The idea alone is enough to garner the project attention, but the end result is very good, giving us a fascinating look at the life of one girl who grew up in a difficult time, in a difficult place, and chose a fairly unique way to tell her story.

[Vulture] ”˜Persepolis’ Trailer Brings Iron Maiden to Iran -- Vulture ...: We admit that unlike nearly everyone else, we weren't big fans of Marjane Satrapi's breakout graphic memoir Persepolis finding her artwork distractingly crude for the sophisticated story of growing up in Iran she was trying to tell. But in turning Persepolis into a film, Satrapi has transformed her simplistic comics panels into snazzier and more fluid animation, lending this adorable teaser trailer a visual vibrance to match the personality of its spunky protagonist.

[Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest] Movie Notes: Persepolis » Webomatica - Technology and ...: star star star star = 4 stars. Starring Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Denueve, Danielle Darrieux Directed by Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi.

[Ultrabrown] Heavy metal on Gandhi Street - Ultrabrown: But the movie inadvertently deracinates Iranians, making an alien culture palatable to Western film audiences, by rendering them literally in white and doing the dialogue in French. The net effect is something pen-and-ink and arty, like a certain genre of Japanese anime, but you get very little Iranian flavor.

[Agendamag Blogaholics] Persepolis - A Must See Film Cleverly Depicting the Islamic ...: Being the outspoken little girl that she was, her parents felt they needed to protect her by sending her away to another country. Women’s privileges and rights were taken away, and it proved to be too much for Marjane, a young teenager to handle–she simply could not keep her opinions to her herself, and those opinions kept getting her into trouble.

[The Allmovie Blog] The Allmovie Blog » Persepolis: Now Available in Two Flavors?: At least Sony had the wisdom and intelligence to pick this up - and because it constitutes France’s official selection for the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2008, it may clock in as one of the rare animated contenders for that Oscar in the history of the Academy.

[Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest] Comic Notes: Persepolis 1 » Webomatica - Technology and ...: While reading Persepolis 1, I began to wonder if America could ever descend into fascism or religious fundamentalism. It is said that for Germans living under the Nazis, civil liberties were slowly whittled away like salami on a deli slicer.

[Tyee - Home] Bam-Pow 'Stupid Scarves' :: tyeebooks.ca: When Persepolis was published, the political climate was ripe for the views of an Iranian woman who decried the veil as a repressive device of Islamic fundamentalism. The book appeared in France in 2000 as officials were campaigning for increased secularity, which eventually led to a ban on headscarves in schools.

[Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal] Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive ...: where the cover didn’t impress me but I later found myself arrested by an image that you’d pulled out of the book. The page from “The Arrival”

[Feminist Law Professors] Feminist Law Professors » Blog Archive » Leading vs. Managing: Interview with “Persepolis” Co-directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud · Marital Property in Japan ». Leading vs.

[The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log] The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log » Lost in Translation ...: Swans with Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis for instance) and the increase in smaller independents tackling themes and styles major publishers may have avoided (although many are now looking at them of course and thinking, .

[THE BEAT] THE BEAT » Blog Archive » The Beat’s Annual Survey 2008 Edition Part 2: The western worldwide love for Marjane Satrapi and PERSEPOLIS. I think the release of SHORTCOMINGS was pretty huge as well;

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