Movie Review

Persepolis

While I liked this movie, I believe it was made as the result of a dare to create a sort of perfect storm of art house pretension. The dare was to make a movie:

- In French
- In black & white
- About a girl's sexual awakening
- Set in the Mideast
- With a political theme

And I'm thoroughly impressed with how they combined everything thick-rimmed glasses-wearing community college professors love, in a cartoon no less, and made it watchable.