Persian Realm

Robin aka Batman aka Shitface Thank you for the Dog ;0)

Thank you for complimenting the dog.

Lucky for you hezbollahi scarecrow with no name I cannot Bite your tongue out of its roots !

Oh and before I forget

Respectully Up Yours !

;0)))

OUI OUI OUI OUI

Elle n'est pas du tout timide dans son livre ! C'est cela qui compte et qui restera dans l'histoire.

Je ne l'a connais pas personnellement et je ne juge que son travail qui est juste et objectif.

Il y a des mauvaises langues qui veulent térnir son image, il ne faut pas leur donner l'écho.

Amicalement,

Orang

Poulet aux Prunes / Chicken Plum

I apreciated Persepolis and I LOVED chicken plum. I consider it is her best book. Full of imagination, feelings and humour. May be some day she will do another movie with this one.

I recommand you this site :

//mapage.noos.fr/marjane.persepolis/

She is writing a new one Onzième Laureate (eleventh laureat) :

//mapage.noos.fr/marjane.persepolis/onziemelaureate.html

Orang

inferiority complex

darius kadivar is a monarchist dog, a francophile, and is struck w an inferiority complex.

Oui et Non

Marjane Satrapi est une artiste très talentueuse mais côté idée politique elle n'est pas RADICALEMENT contre la République Islamique d'Iran. Elle est un peu trop timide à ce niveau là.

Mademoiselle Shany

//www.irania.fr

Proof that ART can speak TRUTH to POWER

As Americans like to say, "The Truth Hurts". Great to see Satrapi's tale is making uncomfortable, those who have been so responsible for making so many people uncomfortable with their flawed social experiment. I can't wait to see it in the theaters in the US. Everyone should collectively use the power of positive thinking (for once), and "Think OSCAR!"

Mrs. Satrapi chose 'art'

Mrs. Satrapi chose 'art' in a very simple and honest way to tell others her story which is nothing but the story of most Iranians. He book was translated into many languages and I as an Iranian am very proud of her. The artistic and cultural sectors of the West, specially in Europe, have recognized and appreciated her message.

I am sure the film will be a success, mainly because it has to do with our current reality. Obviously the Islamo-Fascist regime of Iran does not like this, nor do all iranians that fear regime change.

To Redwine:  Hermano, aunque, temporalmente vivo en Canada, he crecido en Espanya y desde aqui te puedo decir, que el pueblo espanol conoce muy bien el significado de la democracia, ya que tuvo que luchar por ella, mientras que aqui en Canada, en realidad no saben mucho lo que significa, En internet, sigo viendo el programa (59 segundos) y espero que algun dia en nuestro propio pais podamos dialogar en libertad. Un Abrazo.

Ba sepase faravan ve banoo Satrapi va degar doostane Irandoost.

Marjane Satrapi In Spain

I am so proud of her .

Muy bien chica,vamos a ganar al Oscar .

MADRID — For the first time ever, a Spanish film, Gerardo Olivares’ moving immigration drama “14 Kilometers,” took the top Golden Spike at the 52nd Valladolid Intl. Film Fest.

In “Kilometers,” Olivares employs the same methods that yielded strong results in his Berlin Panorama player “The Great Match": months long research and a fictionalized, warm-hearted re-creation of events shot in the same locations with sumptuous HD photography and non-pro thesps.

In this case, “Kilometers” follows two men from Southern Niger and a girl from Mali crossing the Tenere Desert, Algeria and Morocco before confronting passage across the Straits of Gibraltar — the 14 kilometers of the film’s title.

As ever, Valladolid, a fall launchpad for arthouse pics, sported a strong lineup of standouts from other events. Marjane Satrapi and Vicent Paronnaud’s “Persepolis” opened the festival to strong applause; another liked film, Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze’s contempo Polish family drama “Savior’s Square,” won a Silver Spike; and Claude Berri’s “Hunting and Gathering” took the fest’s general audience award.

But for once at Valladolid, it was Spain’s edition, with Spanish pics, often world preems, producing large press coverage and often upbeat reactions.

Well received by the public, Spanish filmmaker-writer Gonzalo Suarez’s “Oviedo Express” nominally chronicles a troupe of actors reaching Northern Spain’s Oviedo to put on a stage version of famed Spanish novel “La Regenta.”

But that’s just the launchpad for Suarez’s signature and semi- tongue-in-cheek mix of fantasy, literary references, and romantic drama.

Co-produced by Spain’s Morena Films, Mexican Rodrigo Pla’s “The Zone,” one of the standout Latin American debs of this year, a stylish and powerful social thriller about a gated community manhunt, also went down well, as did another strong Latin American first film, Lucia Puenzo’s transsexual drama “XXY,” co-produced by Wanda.

Fest boasted two standout docupics. One, Guenter Schwaiger’s discomfiting “Hafner’s Paradise,” co-produced by Schwaiger’s Madrid-based label, is an in-depth portrait of an 83-year-old ex-S.S. officer, Paul Hafner, who moved to Madrid under Franco in 1945, still lives comfortably in Spain, and has no moral qualms about his Nazi past.

Also currying positive buzz, Carlos Garcia-Alix’s “The Honor of the Wronged,” proved a painterly, revisionist take on the still-open scars left by the first third of the 20th century.

“Wronged” focuses on the turbulent life of off-the-rails anarchist Felipe Sandoval. It adds to attempts by usually new directors to come to terms with the complexities of Spain’s often atrocious and usually divisive recent past.