ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

gavin6942 Poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.The graphic novel "Persepolis" was very widely read. In fact, a number of college courses required it. It is an excellent look at the difference between what people think of Iran and what being from Iran actually means for those who lived through the last generation.The film adds so much more with the music, the inflection, and just really getting a human quality that cannot be expressed fully on paper. The animation stays true to the original art, really bringing out its strengths. It made me wan to read the book again and learn more about the author's royal lineage!

Red_Identity Well, it took me long enough to finally get around to watching this. Ever since its release, it's been one of those films I said I'd watch one day. I don't exactly know why I took this long, but it surpassed my expectations. It's completely engrossing, the animation really does wonders for this coming-of-age story, sort of hard to see it being done any other way. The editing work here is pretty amazing, always finding a fresh and seamless approach to balancing its many different cuts in time. I'm not necessarily sure that I think it's better than Ratatouille, another truly amazing animated film, but it definitely deserved a Screenplay nomination at the least.

jamariana Persepolis is a wonderful tale about a young girl's journey from childhood spent in war-torn Iran to adulthood. The main character is strong, one that the audience can sympathise with, and fairly intelligent. The history of the Iran-Iraq war is told with such sincerity and emotion. It's explained with lyrical and poetic clarity in a way that the audience can emotionally connect to and understand. The narrations by Marjane, her father, and several other people in the life of Marjane do not sound like boring history lectures, but insightful and captivating accounts of destruction, hatred, terror, injustice, and the likes. The film touches on many controversial issues such as women's rights in traditional Islamic countries, war, torture, and corruption. It is very well adapted, entertaining, and incredibly refreshing. I particularly appreciated the colour switching, which many have called pretentious. However, I think it suits the film very well and serves a wonderfully artistic purpose.Persepolis is a great film for women, a great film for men, for those who have suffered, for those who want to understand suffering, for those who appreciate good animated films, for those who like politically charged dramas with a heart and a mind, and for anyone who can appreciate a great film as rare as this one.

japa2121 Without a doubt one of my favorite films of all time. The first time I ran into Persepolis I had absolutely no idea what the film was or what it might be about, just sat down in a small town foreign film festival and started watching, and i was not disappointed to spend my time learning the story of Marjan. The film is remarkably entertaining and incredibly easy to relate to despite the difference of decades and thousands of miles dividing my childhood from Marjan's. Persepolis is basically a story of a child's journey to adulthood set against the backdrop of civil unrest in Iran and learning to find one's self in the midst of social change.From losing a loved one, finding, losing, and finding faith again, and ultimately learning who you are versus what everyone sees,there are many more lessons to be learned from Persepolis than just surviving war and oppression. Having read the comics after watching the film I can say that after re watching the film It does stay true to the comic books, which as an avid comic book fan is something incredibly important to me. Persepolis is a definite must see for anyone coming out of adolescence or anyone wanting to reflect on their childhood or see it from a different point of view.