While his second film (Heartbeats via IFC) found an easier pathway to a fruitful distribution, despite acclaim and film festival prestige, it appears to...
With three selected films in the Main Comp (Yousry Nasrallah's After the Battle, Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love, Walter Salles' On the Road)...
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.