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The most moving viewing experience I've had here so far was Persepolis, a remarkable animated film by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, based on the graphic novel by Satrapi. Satrapi grew up in Tehran, experiencing the Islamic revolution and the Iran/Iraq war before her parents shipped her to the safety of Vienna. This is a memoir of cultural displacement, but it's filled with warm, biting humor and razor-sharp observations, all filtered through a lens of personal remembrance. Marjane gradually comes to realize Iran is not an idea place for a woman to live, and yet it is home, and home has an emotional pull that always defies logic. The images are rendered in fanciful, pliable flourishes of blacks and whites that create long shadows and expressionistic silhouettes. It is wistful, dark, and marvelously human. I liked it so much a I started a mini ovation at the press screening (for my thoughts on applause at movies, check out the arts department's applause package that ran in Sunday's paper). |
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