Persepolis (2007 Foreign Film)
The seventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2007 features one of the year’s most notable foreign films, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis. Written and directed by Satrapi and Paronnaud (based on Satrapi’s graphic novels) and starring the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian and Gabriele Lopes, Persepolis premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/persepolis-2008), Dana Stevens in Slate (https://slate.com/culture/2007/12/marjane-satrapi-s-brilliant-persepolis.html), and Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/2008/01/09/persepolis-3/).
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