11/5
Friday
19:30
Camões Garden
Director: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Duration: 96 minutes
Language: French
Subtitles: Chinese and English
Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival 2007
Best Animated Feature at Ottawa International Animation Festival 2007
Nominated for Animated Feature Film at the 80th Academy Awards, 2008
Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist and illustrator. Her autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, earns numerous awards and was adapted into eponymous animated film in 2007. The story follows a little girl to the Islamic world from its past to its present. Strong contrast against colour and monochrome images, hilarious but realistic depiction with nostalgia, and concern about humanity generates profound imaginations that overturn our common understanding of animation.
As a young girl, Marji is raised in an open-minded middle-class family from Tehran. She receives French education at her early life which makes her a unconstrained and vivacious girl who is confident enough to do everything she likes. After Pahlavi dynasty comes to an end in Iran, she is sent abroad by her parents to avoid the nationwide arrests and restrictions.
At the age of 14, she travels to Vienna where she stays as students for four years, gradually grows up to be a graceful and thoughtful lady. She adapts herself to the free air in Europe, whilst being discriminated racially, but is later suffered from the pain of cheating by her boyfriend. As she decides to flee to somewhere else, she have no choice but Iran. Once again, she must adapted herself to the place she comes from…
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Categories: Group B (Not suitable for audiences under 13 years of age)
Guest Speaker
Ka Ming
Hong Kong film critic, columnist in Ming Pao and Ming Pao Weekly