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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]
There is no denying the boldness of Persepolis, both in design and in moral complaint, but there must surely be moments, in Marjanes life as in ours, that cry out for cross-hatching and the grown-up grayness of doubt.
By turns lyrical, serious, funny and acerbic, Persepolis raises the bar for animation and illustrates the true power of storytelling in illuminating the world and its conflicts.
Not to be missed in any language. In a year that has given us such marvelous animated movies as Ratatouille and Paprika, this vibrant, sly and moving personal odyssey takes pride of place.
Told with style and passion, Persepolis is one of the most unique, and moving, animated films ever made.
Extraordinarily moving and wildly informative.
A gem of an animated movie which subtly and comically jabs the Iranian regime while unfolding the spiritual journey of a woman from 1978 to the 1990's.
An animated autobiographical masterpiece about one Iranian woman's intense quest for the holy grail of freedom - one of the most imaginative and important films of the year.
This is a sturdily poetic movie, rendering in black-and-white a world where nothing ever is.
Here is that rare profoundly original film that will open floodgates. It also announces the brazen identity of a fiercely independent female voice in international cinema.
It's a movie that makes you glad to be alive.
As with Art Spiegelman's gold-standard graphic novel Maus, Iranian author Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed series Persepolis directly confronts the political via the personal.
It always seems like there's one very strong, very different animated film that gives the mundane, computer-generated 'toons a run for their money come Oscar time, and this is almost certainly going to be this year's version.
The film has to simplify the story, but it allows more breadth to develop one lovely character particular, Satrapi's beautiful grandmother.
Top CriticQuite simply one of the best book adaptations and animated films to have come out of Europe in recent years.
Persepolis is much more than a history lesson; it's also the story of a misunderstood girl -- one who will certainly give Juno MacGuff a run for her money as the year's best teenage heroine.
Among the most original and moving films at Cannes this year, marked by a highly expressive and varied drawing style and the sense of a plucky young woman navigating the turbulent currents of politics, family and adolescence.
As a portrait of young female consciousness caught in a historical thrust of political and cultural turmoil, this original French animation, based on popular Iranian source material, is by turns funny, exuberant, dark and troubling.
A funny, sometimes dark, always affecting story of surviving the worst through a sense of humor.
Top CriticA fresh, moving, out-of-the-gate masterpiece -- a work of animation that manages to be artistically brilliant, politically rich, morally engaging and emotionally overwhelming.
The filmmakers were right to believe that a live-action version of this story would have failed to achieve the universality Persepolis does.
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