ZiaZine July 2008 : 4
movies new dvds in stores this month STATE OF GRACE I Persepolis SONY P I C TURE S [ 4 + monitorTHIS! + JULY 2008 ] Marjane Satrapi overcomes long odds in Persepolis n the mid-s, Iranian Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical, eponymous graphic novel garnered great acclaim, as she detailed her fascinating life during and after the Islamic Revolution, culminating in a permanent move to Europe after a systematic dilution of civil liberties. Satrapi wrote and directed this animated adaptation, a thrilling and emotionally resonant piece that brings the comic to life faithfully and evocatively, not unlike Frank Miller’s Sin City. In the late s, while still a dictatorship with more than its fair share of corruption, Iran offered at least the vestiges of democratic progression. With the shah’s fall and exile, though, a somewhat modernized world devolved, and Satrapi found herself suffocating beneath a rule where women were forced to hide their faces beneath veils and ignore all Western indulgence. What makes Persepolis truly compelling is her struggle upon moving to Austria to find a compromise between her traditional value system and a newly open society. stores in june
State Of Grace
Marjane Satrapi overcomes long odds in Persepolis
IN THE MID-()))S, Iranian Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical, eponymous graphic novel garnered great acclaim, as she detailed her fascinating life during and after the Islamic Revolution, culminating in a permanent move to Europe after a systematic dilution of civil liberties. Satrapi wrote and directed this animated adaptation, a thrilling and emotionally resonant piece that brings the comic to life faithfully and evocatively, not unlike Frank Miller’s Sin City. In the late +,-)s, while still a dictatorship with more than its fair share of corruption, Iran offered at least the vestiges of democratic progression. With the shah’s fall and exile, though, a somewhat modernized world devolved, and Satrapi found herself suffocating beneath a rule where women were forced to hide their faces beneath veils and ignore all Western indulgence. What makes Persepolis truly compelling is her struggle upon moving to Austria to find a compromise between her traditional value system and a newly open society.
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