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based upon

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's autobiographical

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. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the

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. The title references the historical city of

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. The film was an

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made by companies in

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and

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. It premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, where it co-won the

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, alongside ''

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''. In her acceptance speech, Satrapi said "Although this film is universal, I wish to dedicate the prize to all Iranians." It was released in France and Belgium on 27 June 2007, earning universal praise from critics, and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the

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Plot

At the

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in France, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi looks at the flight schedule and reflects on her childhood. During the 1979

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against the

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, Marji's middle-class family participates in the rallies, though she is forbidden from attending. Marji's uncle Anoosh comes to dinner upon release from prison, inspiring Marji with stories of his life on the run from the government. The Shah is deposed, and elections for a new leading power commence;

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win the elections and start imposing strict Islamic law, forcing women to dress "modestly" and wear headscarves. Anoosh is rearrested and executed for his political beliefs. Over time, many Iranians escape abroad. The

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breaks out, and the Iranian government takes away even more social freedoms. Marji's uncle Taher suffers a heart attack and must go to England for surgery, but only those approved by the Board of Health can leave the country. When Marji's aunt seeks permission, she finds that the hospital director is her former window washer, who is incompetent and submissive to religion. Marji and her father visit Khosro for a fake passport. Khosro is sheltering Niloufar, a woman wanted for her

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beliefs. When Niloufar is caught and executed, Khosro flees. Taher dies. As she grows up, Marji buys

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on the

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and wears unorthodox clothing. When she rebuts a teacher's lies about government abuses, she is expelled. Fearing her arrest, her parents send her to a French lycée in

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to live with

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nuns. Marji makes few friends and feels isolated. After she insults a nun, she is thrown out. She moves from house to house until she rents a room from Dr. Frau Schloss, a former teacher. One night, as she leaves a party where she lies about being French, Marji hears her grandmother's voice telling her to stay true to herself. Schloss accuses Marji of stealing, and Marji leaves. She spends the day on a park bench, reflecting upon her actions and realizing she has nowhere to go. After living on the street for a few months, she contracts

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and almost dies. She awakens in a Viennese hospital. Marji returns to Iran with her family's hopes that the end of the war will improve their lives. She grows depressed, and attempts suicide by overdosing on medication. She attends university and starts dating fellow student Reza. While waiting for Reza outside, Marji lies to a police officer to avoid arrest for wearing makeup. Her grandmother is disappointed and tells her that both her grandfather and her uncle died for freedom and that she should never sacrifice her integrity. Marji gives a speech during class, challenging the sexist

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in the university's forum on

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, but both Marji's and Reza's families are fined when the two are caught holding hands in public. Marji and Reza marry, but divorce a year later. The fundamentalist police raid a party that Marji is attending. The women are detained while the men escape across the rooftops. One of them, Nima, falls to his death. Marji decides to leave Iran. Before leaving, she visits the graves of her grandfather and uncle. Her mother forbids her from returning, and her grandmother dies soon after her departure. In the present, Marji gets into a taxi. As it leaves the airport, the driver asks where she is from. She replies, "Iran". She recalls her final memory of her grandmother.

Cast

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Marjane Marjane may refer to: People * Léo Marjane (1912-2016), French singer * Marjane Satrapi (born 1969), Iranian-born French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Others * Marjan hill, hill on the penin ...

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as Mother ;French version * Gabriele Lopes as child Marjane *

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as Grandmother *

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as Father * François Jerosme as Uncle Anoush ;English version * Amethyste Frezignac as child Marjane *

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as Grandmother *

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as Father *

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as Uncle Anoush * Mathilde Merlot as Tina / First Voice

Cinematography

The film is presented in the

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style of the original graphic novels. Satrapi explains in a bonus feature on the DVD that this was so that the place and the characters would not look like foreigners in a foreign country but simply people in a country to show how easily a country can become like Iran. The present-day scenes are shown in color, while sections of the historic narrative resemble a

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show. The design was created by art director and executive producer Marc Jousset. The animation is credited to the Perseprod studio and was created by two specialized studios,

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and Pumpkin 3D.

Animation and design

Directed by Christian Desmares, the film was produced by a total of twenty animators. Initially opposed to producing an animated movie due to the high level of difficulty, producers Marc-Antoine Robert and Xavier Regault gave protagonist, Marjane Satrapi, alternative options of film production to avoid animation. As admitted by producer Robert, "I know the new generation of French comic book artists quite well, and I'm afraid of Marjane's. I offered to write an original script for her, because I didn't want to work on an animated movie at all...I knew how complicated it was". And yet, despite the difficulty, the producers followed through with Satrapi's wishes and focused on interpreting her life story as depicted in her novel ''Persepolis,'' ""With live-action, it would have turned into a story of people living in a distant land who don't look like us," Satrapi says. "At best, it would have been an exotic story, and at worst, a 'third-world' story". The animation team worked alongside Satrapi to gain a detailed understanding of the types of graphic images she deemed necessary for accuracy. Following her guidelines, the animators, such as interviewee Marc Jousset, commented on their use of the "tradition animation techniques" Satrapi requested to keep the drawings simple and avoid the "more high-tech techniques" that "would look dated". Satrapi's vision, according to Jousset, involved a lot of focus on the characters' natural, humane physical imperfections. During their initial stages of production, the animation team attempted to use 2D image techniques "on pen tablets," but were immediately unsatisfied with the product due to the lack of definition, Jousset has said. Applying traditional techniques as simple as paper and ink to the production allowed Satrapi to use methods she was familiar with. As a result, Satrapi crafted an image depiction she, herself, would recognize as her own work, and thus, her own story. "It was clear that a traditional animation technique was perfectly suited to Marjane's and Vincent's idea of the film". Choosing black and white as the film's dominant colors was an intentional choice by Satrapi, along with the director and animation team, to continue on the path of traditional animation techniques. Despite its simplicity, members of the animation team such as Jousset discussed how black and white makes imperfections more obvious: "Using only black and white in an animation movie requires a great deal of discipline. From a technical point of view, you can't make any mistakes...it shows up straight away on the large screen". In addition to color display, the animation team worked especially hard on techniques that mimicked the styles of Japanese cartoonists, known as "manga," and translating them into their own craft of "a specific style, both realistic and mature. No bluffing, no tricks, nothing overcooked". According to Jousset, "Marjane had quite an unusual way of working...Marjane insisted on being filmed playing out all the scenes...it was a great source of information for the animators, giving them an accurate approach to how they should work". With this in mind, the animators commented on the immense hardships they faced when creating each image of "1,200 shots" through Satrapi's perspective because even though "Marjane's drawings looked very simple and graphic...they're very difficult to work on because there are so few identifying marks. Realistic drawings require outstanding accuracy". Despite the difficulties in working with animation film, however, Satrapi's drive and determination to make the film motivated the animators to finish each graphic image with full accuracy. Following alongside a more traditional style of graphic imagery was not only difficult in terms of drawing, but also in terms of locating a team to draw the images since traditional animators "hardly exist in France anymore". With a group of more than 100 people, though, animator Pascal Chevé confirmed the variety of style each team member brought to the table: "An animator will be more focused on trying to make the character move in the right way. Assistant animators will then put the final touches to the drawings to make sure they're true to the original. Then the 'trace' team comes in, and they work on each drawing with...a felt pen, to ensure that they are consistent with the line that runs throughout the movie". Although it was hard to craft realistic cartoon drawings, Jousset said the biggest challenge was staying on schedule and within budget of "6 million Euros, which is reasonable for a 2D movie made in France", but that "I think the culmination of the fact that it was a true story, that the main character worked with you, that an animated movie dealt with a current issue and that it was intended for adults was tremendously exciting for the team".

Reception

Critical response

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gives the film an approval rating of 96% based on 162 reviews, with an average rating of 8.20/10. The site's consensus reads: "''Persepolis'' is an emotionally powerful, dramatically enthralling autobiographical gem, and the film's simple black-and-white images are effective and bold".

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score of 90 out of 100 based on 31 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

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'' gave the film four stars out of four, writing that although its black and white animation "may sound

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", it is "surprisingly involving" and that Satrapi's story is told "caringly, lovingly and with great style". He added, "while so many films about coming of age involve manufactured dilemmas, here is one about a woman who indeed does come of age, and magnificently." ''

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'' magazine's

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named the film one of the Top 10 Movies of 2007, ranking it #6, and called it "a coming-of-age tale that manages to be both harrowing and exuberant". It has been ranked No. 58 in ''Empire'' magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010.

International government reaction

The film has drawn complaints from the Iranian government. Even before its debut at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the government-connected Iran Farabi Foundation sent a letter to the French embassy in

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reading, "This year the Cannes Film Festival, in an unconventional and unsuitable act, has chosen a movie about Iran that has presented an unrealistic face of the achievements and results of the glorious Islamic Revolution in some of its parts." Despite such objections, the Iranian cultural authorities relented in February 2008 and allowed limited screenings of the film in Tehran, albeit with six scenes censored due to sexual content. In June 2007 in Thailand, the film was dropped from the lineup of the

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. Festival director Chattan Kunjara na Ayudhya said, "I was invited by the Iranian embassy to discuss the matter and we both came to mutual agreement that it would be beneficial to both countries if the film was not shown" and "It is a good movie in artistic terms, but we have to consider other issues that might arise here." ''Persepolis'' was initially banned in Lebanon after some clerics found it "offensive to Iran and Islam." The ban was later revoked after an outcry in Lebanese intellectual and political circles.

Screening controversies

On 7 October 2011, the film was shown on the Tunisian private television station

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. A day later a demonstration formed and marched on the station. The main Islamic party in Tunisia,

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, condemned the demonstration.

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, the owner of Nessma TV, faced trial in Tunis on charges of "violating sacred values" and "disturbing the public order." He was found guilty and ordered to pay a fine of 2,400 dinars ($1,700; £1,000), a much more lenient punishment than predicted.

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said that criminal proceedings against Karoui are an affront to freedom of expression.

Awards

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* Nominated: Best Animated Feature. Additionally, it is the first traditionally animated nominee since 2005's ''

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''. It was also France's

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entry, but was not nominated. ;

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* Nominated:

;

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* Nominated:

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* Nominated:

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; 35th Annie Awards * Nominated: Best Animated Feature * Nominated: Directing in an Animated Feature Production * Nominated: Music in an Animated Feature Production * Nominated: Writing in an Animated Feature Production ;

33rd César Awards The 33rd César Awards ceremony was presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to honour the best films of 2007 in France. It was held on 22 February 2008 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Je ...

* Won: Best First Feature Film (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi) * Won: Best Writing – Adaptation (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi) * Nominated: Best Editing (Stéphane Roche) * Nominated:

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* Nominated: Best Music Written for a Film (Olivier Bernet) * Nominated: Best Sound (Samy Bardet, Eric Chevallier and Thierry Lebon) ; 2007 Cannes Film Festival * Tied:

* Nominated:

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; 20th European Film Awards * Nominated:

;

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* Won: Best Film ;2007

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* Southerland Trophy (Grand prize of the festival) ;2007

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* Special Jury Prize ;2007

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* Won: Best Foreign Language Film ;2007

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* Won: Rogers People's Choice Award for Most Popular International Film ;2009

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* Won:

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