Her biographical novel, which became her first feature film, a black and white animation about her life in Iran and abroad, Persepolis, won international acclaim and awards. Living on the streets of Vienna for two months, she became sick and eventually returned home, where she completed her university studies before returning to Europe and establishing in Paris. An animator, writer and filmmaker, Marjane Satrapi was born in Iran in 1969, but soon after the Iranian Revolution broke up, her parents sent her to Europe.Īs a child, she witnessed the growing suppression of civil liberties and the worsening of everyday life that led to the fall of the Shah and the rise of Khomeini’s regime, and then the first years of the Iran–Iraq War. “I was inspired by a picture I saw of my great uncle, taken in 1958, who was a musician, and all these stories I used to hear about him,” said Satrapi. Based on her graphic novel with the same title, Chicken with Plums, co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud and starring Mathieu Amalric and Maria de Medeiros, was among the first movies to screen in the Abu Dhabi Film Festival’s (ADFF) Narrative competition on Friday night and again yesterday.
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