Persepolis.

"Iranian author Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed series Persepolis directly confronts the political via the personal. Recounting her early childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood living in (and out of) Tehran in the years following Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 Iranian Revolution, Satrapi's books—to borrow a phrase from Maus—bleed history, their raw confrontation of the monumental, tumultuous changes that swept the country during the '80s and '90s drenched in intimate, inflamed, and often unpleasant memories and emotions. They're stunning works of exposure, and thus it comes as little shock to discover that Satrapi's cinematic version of her stories—co-directed by Vincent Paronnaud—radiates brutal honesty. A hand-drawn 2D triumph produced in France (where Satrapi now lives) by the country's few remaining traditional animators, and shot primarily in black-and-white, Persepolis feels ripped straight from its creator's heart, a sore, scathing, warts-and-all account of her formative years bolstered by its formidable aesthetic inventiveness, and elevated to the near-apex of its art form by its unguarded sincerity." - Slant Magazine

Last night, we went out with our friends, Kristin & Craig, who we met while we were living in NY. We met them at Mazza a Middle Eastern restaurant in Salt Lake (we didn't intentionally plan to eat and see a Middle Eastern movie, kind of crazy that it worked out that way) . It was really good and will be a great place to put into our restaurant rotation. After dinner we went to Persepolis at the Broadway theatre. It was an interesting account of the history of Iran as told through Marjane's life. I was surprised to find out how much I didn't know about the country's history, including the fact that the veils worn by women only became a law in the 80's. The film is animated in 2D, was mostly black and white and was in French. I would recommend it because of the insight it gives to a place that for so long has been unknown. Marjane's story is quite unbelievable.