Persepolis has been made into a movie and opens December 25. This is a lovely comic written by Marjane Sartrapi on growing up during the revolution in Iran. Reader (Stacie), you would love it. Deborah Solomon interviews her for the NYT magazine. Here’s the best part, aside from the instance where she says she’s going to move to the one country left that allows smoking with the rest of the non-quitters.
Solomon: Still, in your work, you are constantly contrasting your love of food, smoking and sensual pleasures with the acts of self-denial demanded by the mullahs, like wearing a chador.
Sartrapi: It’s a problem for women no matter the religion or the society. If in Muslim countries they try to cover the woman, in America they try to make them look like a piece of meat…We have to look at ourselves here also. Why do all the women get plastic surgery? Why? Why? Why should we look like some freaks with big lips that look like a [goose] anus?
Fall Film List:
No country for old men
Persepolis
Darjeeling Limited
Control
