Persepolis boasts a bold lyricism, in both concept and execution, hand drawn toon is a winner.
VARIETY
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A compelling personal story and a salutary political survey.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
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This remarkable and unique film is funny, provocative and heartbreaking. Persepolis looks stunning. Co-director Paronnaud, a master of black-and-white animation, has turned Satrapi’s witty; faux-naive drawings into arresting moving image.
BLOOMBERG
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One of the charms of Persepolis , on page and screen, is Satrapi’s vein of irony and self-deprecatory humour. The story is as much about the life of a feisty young woman between the ages of four and 24 as it is about Iran, and in any case it is far from being a eulogy of Western values.
SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
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This rare animated political film witnesses the Iranian Revolution from a highly personal perspective. The filmmakers were right to believe that a live-action version of this story would have failed to achieve the universality Persepolis does. Animation allows any viewer to experience this story not as an exotic tale but as something happening to a person with whom we can readily identify.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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