SAW VIDEO GROUNDBREAKERS SERIES: in response to the current uprising regarding the Iranian election results, SAW Video and the Mayfair Theatre present this Oscar-nominated animation about a young girl growing up in Tehran during the Iranian revolution. The biopic, Persepolis, is based on the acclaimed graphic novels (Persepolis, Persepolis 2) written by Marjane Satrapi (published in 2000) in which she details her experience as a young girl in Iran up to her high school years in Vienna and Paris.
"While so many films about coming of age involve manufactured dilemmas, here is one about a woman who indeed does come of age, and magnificently." (Roger Ebert)
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