Various locations
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Persepolis, Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
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Jan 11, 2008 – Feb 17, 2008
Daily (3pm–midnight)
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Various prices
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Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so powerfully conveyed political turmoil. Fans of Marjane Satrapi's bildungsroman Persepolis feared its film adaptation might suffer an Eloise fate. Fortunately, as Satrapi herself both co-wrote and directed this animated feature, all of its endearing wit and bristle remain intact. The film follows the Iranian author from her childhood under the Shah's regime, during which she matter-of-factly chats up both Marx and God, through her time as a refugee in Germany after the revolution. Persepolis is this year's most gorgeous film — all black-and-white curves and shadows — as well as one of its most ideologically and emotionally sophisticated.
