Persepolis: Story of young Iranian girl during the Islamic Revolution.
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Persepolis is a 2007 adult animated film based upon the Marjane Satrapi autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It was written and directed by Satrapi in collaboration with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The title references the historical city of Persepolis. The film was an international co-production made by companies in France and Iran. It premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, where it co-won the Jury Prize, alongside Silent Light.
Persepolis (Wikipedia metacritic) is a beautiful movie, and a sad movie, and a very powerful movie. Fun, to boot.
I was, and am, astonished to have found it streaming on Vimeo.
I knew nothing of the movie until earlier this morning. I watched "Radioactive" last night, the brand new Marie Curie biopic streaming on Amazon Prime and today, hoping to get a bit of background on the movie, read Sarah McDermott's review of the movie on cnet. McDermott panned Radioactive; I'm glad I watched the movie before reading her review. (Whatcha gonna do, critics gonna critic.) Probably it's not Perfect Art but I was glad to spend time with it, I don't know enough about Curie to be all fussy and finger-wavey that the movie spent more time than McDermott felt it should on her relationship with her husband. There were beautiful scenes, and plenty of time to be terrorized about both of them rolling around in vats of radium, almost, knowing as I do that to touch even her papers in her lab, all these years later, you have to use tongs.
Anyways, McDermott pointed out that Radioactive was directed by Satrapi, noting that Satrapi was best known for Persepolis, which set me to punching up Marjane Satrapi Persepolis into duckduckgo and bang-zoom, lots links to lots of great stuff -- this human being is a trip. "Irrepressible" was one word that I saw and I do not doubt its accuracy.
Persepolis stars Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, and Gena Rowlands, English subtitles
Persepolis (Wikipedia metacritic) is a beautiful movie, and a sad movie, and a very powerful movie. Fun, to boot.
I was, and am, astonished to have found it streaming on Vimeo.
I knew nothing of the movie until earlier this morning. I watched "Radioactive" last night, the brand new Marie Curie biopic streaming on Amazon Prime and today, hoping to get a bit of background on the movie, read Sarah McDermott's review of the movie on cnet. McDermott panned Radioactive; I'm glad I watched the movie before reading her review. (Whatcha gonna do, critics gonna critic.) Probably it's not Perfect Art but I was glad to spend time with it, I don't know enough about Curie to be all fussy and finger-wavey that the movie spent more time than McDermott felt it should on her relationship with her husband. There were beautiful scenes, and plenty of time to be terrorized about both of them rolling around in vats of radium, almost, knowing as I do that to touch even her papers in her lab, all these years later, you have to use tongs.
Anyways, McDermott pointed out that Radioactive was directed by Satrapi, noting that Satrapi was best known for Persepolis, which set me to punching up Marjane Satrapi Persepolis into duckduckgo and bang-zoom, lots links to lots of great stuff -- this human being is a trip. "Irrepressible" was one word that I saw and I do not doubt its accuracy.
Persepolis stars Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, and Gena Rowlands, English subtitles
Pretty sure I learned about Persepolis (the book) here on MeFi. Previously and previouslier. I'm surprised to see that there was no mention of the movie before.
posted by rhamphorhynchus at 11:03 AM on August 5, 2020 [6 favorites]
posted by rhamphorhynchus at 11:03 AM on August 5, 2020 [6 favorites]
PUNK IS NOT DED
I have good memories of reading the graphic novels in my high school library, and dragging my family to the local art film theater when the movie came out.
posted by J.K. Seazer at 11:24 AM on August 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
I have good memories of reading the graphic novels in my high school library, and dragging my family to the local art film theater when the movie came out.
posted by J.K. Seazer at 11:24 AM on August 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
I was, and am, astonished to have found it streaming on Vimeo.
The subtitled version you linked to does not look like an official streaming version, and neither does this full HD ENG dubbed version that is also freely available on vimeo...
posted by progosk at 12:02 PM on August 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
The subtitled version you linked to does not look like an official streaming version, and neither does this full HD ENG dubbed version that is also freely available on vimeo...
posted by progosk at 12:02 PM on August 5, 2020 [2 favorites]
I bought the novel around the time the film was announced, enjoyed it, and then somehow never managed to see the film. I should fix that.
posted by sfred at 12:11 PM on August 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by sfred at 12:11 PM on August 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
My favorite part of the movie is when her boyfriend (?) visually metamorphoses from a handsome hunk into a creepy gangly teenager as her opinion of him flips. A perfect illustration of how subjective perception is.
posted by benzenedream at 12:23 PM on August 5, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by benzenedream at 12:23 PM on August 5, 2020 [7 favorites]
I bought the graphic novel for my cousins way back when. Especially for my girl cousins living under religious scrutiny
I wonder how the musical references land with 13 yr olds today, if they land at all, or is MJ as foreign a country as post revolution Iran?
posted by eustatic at 12:46 PM on August 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
I wonder how the musical references land with 13 yr olds today, if they land at all, or is MJ as foreign a country as post revolution Iran?
posted by eustatic at 12:46 PM on August 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
Amazing find. I've had this on my to-watch list for so long and just never got around to it. Looking forward to spending an evening with this film!
posted by invokeuse at 12:49 PM on August 5, 2020
posted by invokeuse at 12:49 PM on August 5, 2020
A favorite. And for those who have read the graphic novel, I highly recommend her short graphic book, Embroideries. Wonderful intimate portrait of women within her culture.
posted by winesong at 3:09 PM on August 5, 2020 [6 favorites]
posted by winesong at 3:09 PM on August 5, 2020 [6 favorites]
Persepolis is one of the books, along with Maus, that cemented graphic novels as a serious art form and not just comic books.
posted by hypnogogue at 9:41 PM on August 5, 2020 [8 favorites]
posted by hypnogogue at 9:41 PM on August 5, 2020 [8 favorites]
To this day I have a huge crush on Marjane Satrapi.
"The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is bigger than the difference between me and you.
And our governments are very much the same."
-Marjane Satrapi
posted by deadaluspark at 8:37 AM on August 6, 2020 [7 favorites]
"The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is bigger than the difference between me and you.
And our governments are very much the same."
-Marjane Satrapi
posted by deadaluspark at 8:37 AM on August 6, 2020 [7 favorites]
hypnogogue, I assure you that comic books too can be ‘serious art’. Why insult a medium to elevate another?
posted by thedward at 8:45 AM on August 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by thedward at 8:45 AM on August 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
I'm fairly sure entire very serious books have been written with great serious ferocity about the themes and meanings of Krazy Kat & Ignatz.
Comics have always been serious literature. Just ask the Pharaohs.
posted by deadaluspark at 8:55 AM on August 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
Comics have always been serious literature. Just ask the Pharaohs.
posted by deadaluspark at 8:55 AM on August 6, 2020 [1 favorite]
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