"When films try to hop from genre to genre they often end up falling flat or missing their mark. What saves Sheitan from this fate is the brilliantly over-the-top performance of Vincent Cassel"
"What Crank amounts to is an 87-minute music video full of physical brutality, robbery, drugging, and sex. It's alright to be a fan of these types of things in film, but one must also realize that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing."
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.