Persepolis Trailer

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Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power
- forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war, the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable.
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It's playing in Concord.  Looks like it might be good.

[KBCraig]

Looks interesting. The subtitles are of sucky quality, though.

I wonder what her current leanings are? Her wikipedia page says:
Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a progressive family. Her family was involved with the communist and socialist movements in Iran, prior to the Islamic Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing oppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ayatollah Khomeini and the first years of the Iran-Iraq war.

Since she has experienced both secular and religious tyranny in Iran, and socialist tyranny in France, I wonder if she's concluded that the problem is not who's in charge of the government, it's just government, period.

I know this is a French production, but Iran has produced some stunningly beautiful films. I have The Color of Paradise in my Netflix queue; I saw it a couple of years ago on IFC and found it entrancing. Totally different experience from a Hollywood movie. Then again, we like foreign movies: more acting, less melodramatic posing. More cinematography, less CGI and special effects.

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I wonder if the movie will properly portray the Iranian revolution as one oppressive government supplanting another (the former being the U.S.-backed régime of Shah Reza Pahlavi), or if this is just a pro-U.S. propaganda piece to keep the heat up on the current Islamic régime.