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Persepolis (2007)
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Marjane's changing relationship with home makes political history inseparable from the ordinary embarrassment of growing up and being judged. Watching as an adult can bring her parents' decisions, and the limits on their protection, into sharper focus. The spare black-and-white drawings give contradictory memories room to coexist. This autobiographical animation includes repression, execution and war, with humour that survives inside those pressures.
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In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.