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Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux (View All)
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Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux
The coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. We meet nine-year-old Marjane when the fundamentalists first take power--forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. The story then follows her as she cleverly outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden, while living with the terror of government persecution and the Iran/Iraq war. Then Marjane's journey moves on to Austria where, as a teenager, her parents send her to school in fear for her safety and, she has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape. Marjane eventually gains acceptance in Europe, but finds herself alone and horribly homesick, and returns to Iran to be with her family, though it means putting on the veil and living in a tyrannical society. After a difficult period of adjustment, she enters art school and marries, continuing to speak out against the hypocrisy she witnesses. At age twenty-four, she realizes that while she is deeply Iranian, she cannot live in Iran. She then makes the heartbreaking decision to leave her homeland for France, optimistic about her future, shaped indelibly by her past.
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US Release Date
12/25/07
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material including violent images, sexual references, language and brief drug content
Running Time
95 mins.
Language
- English
- French
Box Office Total
$4,443,403
Awards
- Nominated for a Best Animated Feature award at the 2007 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 National Society of Film Critics [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture - Animated or Mixed Media award at the 2007 Golden Satellite Award [Festival/Award Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Film award at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Animated Feature award at the 2008 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2008 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Animated Feature award at the 2007 Chicago Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2007 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film award at the 2008 London Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Winner of the The Bvlgari Award for NBR Freedom of Expression award at the 2007 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Jury Prize award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2007 New York Film Critics Online [Festival Awards.
- Winner of the Best Animation award at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Foreign Film award at the 2007 New York Film Critics Online [Festival Awards.
- Winner of the Best Animated Feature award at the 2007 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Winner of the Best Animated Feature award at the 2007 New York Film Critics Online [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Animated Feature award at the 2007 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
Distributor
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
