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I knew nothing about this movie. We just moved to France and are staying in a small village in the Dordogne. There is a little movie theater and we went. What a great movie. Funny, smart, sad, and visually simple but engaging.
I love when she is looking for bootleg music cassettes and everyone is trying to sell her things like Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles but she's not interested. She hears someone whisper "Iron Maiden", and she jumps at the chance. She runs home, puts it in, and plays air guitar on her tennis racket, after of course stripping off her traditional garb.
There were so many instances of cultural clashes but in a normal realistic way. Many contradictions that didn't cripple the characters to the point of not being able to function. It seemed so honest about how you live in intolerable circumstances.
I immediately blogged about it but no one listened.
If you look down the list of awardees for the Nobel Prize in literature, you'll see that a great many of them are writers who broke new artistic ground while portraying the most intimate dynamics of life in a repressive system.
Perhaps in the future, Ms. Satrapi will become a source of vexation for Nobel judges forced to consider whether a graphic novel counts as a novel.
As for me, I hope the DVD version contains a commentary by the author.
