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Reviews Counted:130
Fresh:125
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: Persepolis is an emotionally powerful, dramatically enthralling autobiographical gem, and the film's simple black-and-white images are effective and bold.
Theatrical Release:25-04-2008
Synopsis: NEW YORK PREMIERE AT NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2007 (Limited) PERSEPOLIS presents a deeply personal coming-of-age tale about finding one's place in the world. Based on her bestselling graphic... [More]
The predominantly black-and-white animation is used to amusing effect as Satrapi gently pokes fun at her youthful exuberance and innocence, making serious political points easy to swallow. The lack of sense of direction is the film's only let-down.
Top CriticA moving, funny, personal yet universal tale of one woman's life growing up amid political turbulence, animated with concise artistry.
Top CriticThe monochrome animation is stark and beautiful, and Marjane’s an appealing narrator. Often hilarious, sometimes tragic, this may be low-tech, but it’s high-class.
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Top CriticPersepolis makes this most difficult of subjects at once watchable, accesible, and ultimately unforgettable.
Smoky grey backgrounds add layering and depth, while silhouette-work and jerky cardboard-puppet sequences nod humorously at the Arabian Nights tradition.
A delightful, curious film that indulges in both the personal and the political and provides a potted history of modern Iran through one woman’s experience.
Top CriticBeautifully animated, thoroughly engaging coming-of-age drama that is by turns moving, thought-provoking and laugh-out-loud funny.
Extraordinarily moving and wildly informative.
Clicks on ever level, visual and narrative, with a sort of inventiveness that seems intoxicated by the liberating possibilities of cinema.
It's a cultural Rosetta Stone, bridging disparate cultures with a universal language %u2014 the pain of growing up.
Persepolis may be a crudely drawn, two-dimensional cartoon, but it packs more genuine emotion than plenty of live-action dramas.
Persepolis is a true original in the eclectic world of animation, one that's full of fascinating contradictions.
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Top CriticThe political component is understated, but then it suddenly slips in and snaps at you.
Persepolis will prove a worthwhile movie for thoughtful teens. They are likely to discover that their plight may be universal, but their circumstances are always unique. And, oh yeah, the personal is always political.
The two main points Persepolis makes are that strife is relative, and all politics are personal.
At once a tribute to one young woman's stubborn resilience and a reminder that people are people, regardless of how their governments may want them to behave, Persepolis is a film of great wisdom and welcome perception.
No Country for Young Women.
The film is extraordinary, expanding the forms of memoir and of animation, told with enormous insight into the most intimate moments of adolescent longing and the most complex aspects of political upheaval.
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