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A rarity from France in the form of an animated biography/agit-prop against the regime in Iran and the treatment of women.  The merits of this film are the fact that it deals with a controversial topic in a humourous and serious way at the same time, with a veneer of matter of factness.  The criticism of the regimes in Iran, especially the clergy and the trials of being a woman in a muslim world are deftly depicted with the appropriate black and white graphics.  The end result is very effective and makes you really think.  I also found it particularly good to see how the mood changes in the film from the young energetic angry and curious schoolgirl to a more resigned young adult who finds it hard to fit in anywhere, be it Iran or Austria where she is sent by her parents during the worst of the revolution.  Imaginative, different, personal and yet universal, it may not be a great work but it is full of delightful moments and wry observations about revolutions.

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