A young girl's earnest dreams of revolution curdle into melancholy as a nation's hope darkens.
A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating. Based on a book.
Streaming on YouTube (free).
No surprises for a PG-13: some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Our estimate: fine from about 13. Rated PG-13.
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In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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