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Persepolis 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Studio: Sony Catalog: DVD Release date: 2008-06-24 Media: DVD released in theatres: 2007-12-25 Running time in minutes: 95 DVD aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Format: AC-3, Black & White, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC DVD Region code: 99 released in theatres: 2007-12-25 Ean: 0043396225251 Upc: 043396225251  Tip: compare prices with similar DVDsDirector:
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 Written on July 26, 2008 Summary: wonderfull and touching A wonderful movie about Iran narrated trough the eyes of this amazing women. I have few Iranian friends and I always feel odd asking them about what was it like before they escaped, the movie shows it, with a lot of grace and humor. I watched it twice, once in english and once in French with subtitles and it was great both times Written on July 25, 2008 Summary: Wonderful movie for tween grrrls. One of the finest animated movies I've ever seen. Full of spunk and fun and poignancy, making excellent use of the medium, well-crafted and meaningful. An aid to cultural understanding even as it presents a case for defiant individualism. Smart, sassy, entertaining, and mandatory viewing for girls from 10 on up, as a view of female self-empowerment in the midst of formidable obstacles. Written on July 22, 2008 Summary: Fascinating Look at an Iranian Girl's Transformative Journey Hand-drawn animation, especially simple black-and-white drawings, is so rare to see on the big screen that one has to appreciate the emotional nakedness that Marjane Satrapi and her fellow cartoonist Vincent Paronnaud bring to this 2007 fictionalized memoir of Satrapi's formative years as the free-spirited daughter in a liberal Iranian family. The 95-minute film follows the same abstract style found in her best-selling autobiographical graphic novel, adding color for the present-day scenes and using a shadow theater approach to the historical sequences. The cumulative effect works well within the context of the story's volatile emotional changes as it alternates in quicksilver fashion between poignant, funny and harrowing. The film reminds me a bit of Mark Forster's adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, which also has a protagonist forced to live in exile due to the advent of war and tyranny. The difference is that Satrapi's family stayed in Tehran throughout the turmoil brought on by the Shah's overthrow, the oppressive fundamentalist regime that followed, and the Iran-Iraq war. Some of this comes across as a bit muddled, but the propulsive narrative drive and empathetic voice characterizations compensate greatly. The plot flashes back to Marjane's childhood in Iran during the 1970's as she gradually begins to understand how her family has been mistreated and imprisoned due to their Communist leanings under the Shah. Once the Islamic Revolution deposes of the Shah in 1979, the family faces even more persecution by the new government. Forced to wear a burqa, Marjane has an escalating desire to express her individuality through listening to heavy rock music and questioning authority at every turn. During the 1980's, Marjane's parents decide to send their daughter to Austria to continue her education since Iran was becoming a political hotbed with the oncoming Iran-Iraq war promising even greater horrors. In he meantime, Marjane never fits into Viennese student life, and her situation worsens with a series of bad romantic relationships. She ends up on the streets, and her desperation becomes such that she returns home to Iran. Falling into a crevasse between Western and Eastern cultures, Marjane falls into a depression until she faces up to her true fate. What Satrapi and Paronnaud do especially well is make the animated Marjane's journey a universal one that gives personalized insights into the current challenges facing the Middle East. The 2008 DVD offers both the original French and English-dubbed versions of the feature. The filmmakers recruited quite a cast of voices to inhabit the characters, including Chiara Mastroianni as Marjane, her mother Catherine Deneuve as Marjane's mother, and another legend, Danielle Darrieux as Marjane's feisty grandmother. Deneuve and Darrieux played mother-and-daughter in Jacques Demy's candy-coated musical, The Young Girls of Rochefort over four decades earlier. On the English version, Mastroianni and Deneuve repeat their roles, but Gena Rowlands takes over for Darrieux. There are several other extras on the DVD, the chief one being a half-hour documentary in French, "The Hidden Side of Persepolis", which gives a highly detailed look at the production process. Satrapi and Paronnaud are interviewed extensively, as are several crew members and both the 91-year-old Darrieux and Mastroianni (a dead ringer for her father Marcello). There are two other pieces - a brief short, "Behind-the-Scenes of Persepolis", which focuses primarily on the English dubbing process with Rowlands and Iggy Pop, and a half-hour press conference held at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with Satrapi, Paronnaud, the film's producers, as well as Mastroianni and Deneuve. There is no full-length directors' commentary track, but three scenes have individual subtitled commentary - Satrapi on the opening scene in color, Mastroianni on the amusing "Eye of the Tiger" scene, and Paronnaud on the establishing shots of Vienna. Particularly interesting are five other scenes where we are shown the storyboards versus the final animation. Written on July 19, 2008 Summary: Stylish animated glimpse into a totalitarian theocracy This is a visually captivating movie, with graphics that are amazing in their starkness and simplicity. No overdone anime here, this comes from an European graphic novel by the heroine who had a lot of input (a la Frank Miller/Sin City). Everything is black and white, except for small flashes of color in Western locations. Politically, a fascinating story, starting out the Shah's overthrow in 1979 and the author's childhood and struggle to find a society to fit into. We are reminded that the Shah, though despotic, was happily supported by the West, for oil and anti-communism. Plus snippets of the 8 year long Iran-Iraq war. Later on, we are given a glimpse in what it might be like to grow up in a country where religious bigots impose their views on everyone. Like the ex-janitor who ends up running a hospital, probably because he can out-God the others. Or the policeman who threatens to rape a woman because her veil isn't modest enough. The plot? Well, this is not a screenplay, but "just" someone's life story. Big difference, so accept that things are bit slower than you might expect. I am not particularly anti-Islam myself. The West went through similar struggles with Christianity hundreds of years ago. The problem mostly isn't religion itself, it's a minority of the religious abusing their power to impose their flawed interpretation of their own religion. A perfect companion DVD to Orwell's Animal Farm. Written on July 12, 2008 Summary: Beautfiul and timely adaption of a great graphic novel I was giddy with nervous anticipation when I first heard that there was to be a film version of Marjane Satrapi's brilliant graphic novels about her childhood in Iran during the 1970s-1980s. I loved her autobiographical stories so much and was worried that a film version would be a total let-down. Fortunately and according to the extra features on the DVD, it seems that Satrapi herself was the key creative force behind the production of the film and dictated many aspects of how her animated characters should move, talk and behave. The result is an absolutely lovely and engaging film with stark but artistically rendered black and white animation. The story itself is a compelling combination of war narrative, adolescent angst and comedy and provides a peek into the world of Iran's fundamentalist regime. |
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| Catalog | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Release date | 2008-06-24 | 2008-04-29 | 2008-06-24 | 2008-04-08 | - | 2008-04-15 |
| Media | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| released in theatres | 2007-12-25 | 2007-12-25 | 2008 | 2008-04-08 | 2008-03-07 | 2007 |
| Running time in minutes | 95 | 112 | 107 | 158 | - | 112 |
| DVD aspect ratio | 1.85:1 | 1.85:1 | 2.35:1 | 2.35:1 | - | 1.85:1 |
| Audience Rating | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) |
| Format | AC-3, Black & White, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Widescreen, Color, Dolby, Dubbed | NTSC | AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen |
| DVD Region code | 99 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Ean | 0043396225251 | 0786936750119 | 0025195016322 | 0097361325743 | - | 0014381487527 |
| Upc | 043396225251 | 786936750119 | 025195016322 | 097361325743 | - | 014381487527 |
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