- Persepolis
- Opened December 25, 2007 | Runtime:1 hr. 35 min.
PG-13
mature thematic material including violent images, sexual references, language and brief drug content
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We meet 9-year-old Marjane when the fundamentalists first take power; she cleverly outsmarts the “social guardians” and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden, while living with the terror of government persecution and the Iran/Iraq war; as a teenager, her parents send her to school in Austria in fear for her safety and she has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape. Marjane gains acceptance in Europe but finds herself homesick, and returns to Iran to be with her family, though it means putting on the veil and living in a tyrannical society. She enters art school and marries, continuing to speak out against the hypocrisy she witnesses. At age 24, she realizes that while she is deeply Iranian, she cannot live in Iran. She then makes the decision to leave for France, optimistic about her future, shaped indelibly by her past.Read More
*Note: Film is presented in French and dubbed in English. Please check with your local theater to find out if this film is presented in French or English.
- Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn, Iggy Pop
- Director: Marjane Satrapi
- Genres: Biopic [feature], Drama, Coming-of-Age