I’ve waited so long to be able to write this… Last night I went to see Persepolis. Its film premiere took place at London’s BFI cinema complex, which is about 200 miles from home. A long way to travel just to go the cinema hey? And we were half an hour late. No matter, the hour and fifteen minutes that we did manage to see was amazing. Much much better than I ever expected in fact.

As a humanist interpretation of the Islamic Revolution it seems to put a face on the realities of war for those lucky ones, like me, that have never experienced such tragedy and find it difficult to relate to life under an Islamic government, no matter how much is read or absorbed during a two-week holiday. The film was one of the few films I’ve ever seen that brought a tear to my eye. It’s not like I have a heart of stone or anything – I just don’t cry at films very often. But then a second later I’d be in fits of laughter. Also of note is the awesome soundtrack used. It was so fitting and helped propel the narrative flow much better than dialogue alone. Below is a short trailer that includes my favourite bit (the leg waxing). The quality is pretty bad but you get the picture :)

One more thing – I heard Sean Penn is to voice Anoosh in the English version. Does anyone have anymore info on this adaptation? I’m happy enough with the French version though to be honest.

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