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| Marjane Satrapi in real life and her cartoon alter-ego. |
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| Persepolis film poster |
Vincent Parronnaud and Marjane Satrapi are credited as co-directors of the film which is based on Satrapi's graphic novels of the same name. The books were published starting in 2000 and the film came out in 2007 to much protest by the Iranian government through their film bureau.
Protest and free speech are both themes of Satrapi's work as are family and love for country, even if living there is dangerous. The film does a good job of translating the source material. Marjane grows from a little girl in love with the romance of revolution to an adult who cannot bear the restrictions of a state that persecutes it's citizens in the name of religious purity. The animation is true to the graphic novels and inventive with it's use of scene transitions and the stark black and white graphics to recreate the turbulence of Marjane's transition into adulthood.
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