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Saw a cool animation film:D called Persepolis last night. Came highly recomended by a friend of mine at Flip Design.
Its done in a gorgeous graphic style. A combination of contemporary looking characters, as well as classical leather puppet kind of characters.
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The main story uses this simplistic style, kind of reminiscent of what you see in tintin comics.
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The flashbacks and other narrated sub stories have a leather puppet style of animation.
The story is about Marjane Satrapi a lady who grew up in Tehran and witnessed first hand parts of the revolution and the Iraq-Iran war. She later documented these experiences in her graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis II . this film is an adaptation of these novels, and won the oscar for best animation film in 2008.
I know it sounds like a terrible tear jerker, but its surprisingly not. In fact theres plenty of humour thrown in throughout the film.
A must see for anyone who wants to get a decent(non fox news) view of life in Iran.
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for more on the film or the graphic novels look here >>
wikipedia: Persepolis (comic)
wikipedia: Persepolis (film)
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