Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- puberty
- civil war
- parent child relationship
- 1970s
- totalitarian regime
- punk rock
- bomb alarm
- coming of age
- orient
- based on memoir or autobiography
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Chiara Mastroianni
Marjane (voice)
Danielle Darrieux
Marjane's Grandmother (voice)
Catherine Deneuve
Marjane's Mother (voice)
Simon Abkarian
Marjane's Father (voice)
- Gabrielle Lopes Benites — Young Marjane (voice)
- François Jérosme — Uncle Anouche (voice)
- Tilly Mandelbrot — Lali (voice)
- Sophie Arthuys — Walla (voice)
- Arié Elmaleh — Walla (voice)
- Mathias Mlekuz — Walla (voice)
- Directed
- Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
- Written
- Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 2,240 ratings
- Studio
- Société des Producteurs de L'Angoa, Sony Pictures Classics, PROCIREP, Soficinéma, France 3 Cinéma, Diaphana Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
