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Release Date:
27 June 2007 (France)
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Plot:
Poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. Full summary » | Full synopsis »
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Iran
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1970s
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Coming Of Age
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Tyranny
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Nominated for Oscar.
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24 nominations
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(From The Guardian - Film News. 21 August 2010, 4:05 PM, PDT)
Making biopics: What's truth got to do with it?
(From The Guardian - Film News. 18 July 2010, 3:01 PM, PDT)
Film review: Women Without Men
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Animation in black-and-white, autobiographical, growing up in Iran during the reign of the Shah and later, the Islamists
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Chiara Mastroianni | ... | Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi, as a teenager and a woman (voice) |
 | Catherine Deneuve | ... | Mrs. Satrapi - Marjane's mother (voice) |
| Danielle Darrieux | ... | Marjane's grandmother (voice) |
| Simon Abkarian | ... | Mr. Satrapi - Marjane's father (voice) |
| Gabrielle Lopes Benites | ... | Marjane as a child (voice) |
| François Jerosme | ... | Uncle Anouche (voice) |
| Sophie Arthuys | ... | (voice) |
| Jean-François Gallotte | ||
| Arié Elmaleh | ... | (voice) |
| Mathias Mlekuz | ... | (voice) |
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| Stéphane Foenkinos | ||
| Amethyste Frezignac | ... | Marjane as a child (voice: English version) |
 | Lexie Kendrick | ... | (voice: English version) |
| Tilly Mandelbrot | ... | Lali (voice) |
 | Sean Penn | ... | Mr. Satrapi - Marjane's father (voice: English version) |
 | Iggy Pop | ... | Uncle Anouche (voice: English version) |
 | Gena Rowlands | ... | Marjane's grandmother (voice: English version) |
| Aoife Stone | ... | (voice: English version) |
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Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material including violent images, sexual references, language and brief drug content.
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96 min | Turkey:89 min (TV version)
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Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | France:U | USA:PG-13 | Canada:14A | Finland:K-11 | Sweden:7 | Singapore:PG | Brazil:12 | Ireland:12A | Netherlands:6 | Taiwan:R-12 | UK:12A (2008) | Germany:12 | Argentina:Atp | South Korea:12 | Australia:M | Singapore:NC-16 (DVD rating)
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France's official submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film category at The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008) (TV).See more »
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Factual errors: The departures board at Paris Orly at the beginning has Cincinnati misspelled as "Cincinatti".See more »
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The black-and-white animation, highly stylized and two dimensions which doesn't attempt to render the usual cartoon 3-D, summarizes in quick, intelligent flashes, often impressionistic, growing up in Teheran and Vienna from a highly personal point of view. The narrative is as original as the art. The narrator, Marjane Satrapi, only daughter of an educated Teheran couple, first sketches in briefly how the Shah first came to power,only to lose it and have it replaced by the fanatical religious regime of today. Educated in a French school, she and her family are rapidly alienated from the so-called revolution; she is sent to Vienna to continue her education, falls in with a group of punks and eventually returns both depressed and disillusioned to Teheran where, with other university students, she must submit to the rule of extreme Islamists.
The story covers a great deal of ground from the point of view of a young pro-Western culture radical, and is told with humor and intelligence. She laughs at herself as much as at the semi-lunatic Guards of the Revolution.
Satrapi's hold on reality is much strengthened under the influence of her highly honest grandmother who teaches her not co compromise, not to betray and not to give in.
This is no fairy tale with flying horses and beautiful princesses, but a serious, unsentimental and sometimes brutally honest film covering, among other events, the story of the millions of Iranians and Iraqis who died in a now forgotten seven year war around the Persian Gulf.