filed under Film | History | War
separation of church and state — the movie
9:22PM ON
02/20/2008
BY
Beth Comery
If you’ve been looking for a movie that doesn’t have Morgan Freeman, I think I found one. Persepolis is still at the Avon Cinema. It is up for an Oscar in the ‘Animated Feature’ category, but that should read ‘Best Picture’. It’s the wrenching, but frequently funny, tale of life in Iran since the Shah was toppled. However, I must make it clear — I did not read the graphic novel. My experience regarding this type of film has always been that the group known as ‘people who have read the graphic novel’ is never satisfied with a movie that is ‘based on the graphic novel’. But just regular people should like this movie.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:29PM
matthew lawrence Says:
not true! i love them both! although i think the animation actually improves the style.
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