Run, Persopils, Run into major artistic achievement.

An awful lot relies on these craftily manipulated black and white lines. ‘Persopolis’ tells a girl’s coming of age story against Iran’s revolutionary backdrop all in mostly 2-D animation.

The abstract style effectively conveys super-realistic themes such as war through a child’s eyes, a political exile’s sense of guilt, the senselessness of suffering, and young love lost. Yes, it’s not all too upbeat of a cartoon. But, we aren’t the glassy-eyed audience we were at 8 years-old either, and graphic artist Marjane Sartrapi takes us through her transformation in an endlessly relatable way (even if we haven’t seen dead people.)

I could write a full review, but many people already have, including the Iranian government, which tried to stop it’s screening at Cannes.

Persopolis hits the N.Y. and L.A. on December 25th — but, make this a bleep on your radar, it’s bound to come to a really expensive small theater near you.

(English trailer on Persepolis website, but you’ll get the gist here.)

Sources:
Iran Protest ‘Persopolis’ Screening USA Today

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