Tag: Marta Meszaros

Criterion Collection: Adoption (1975) | Blu-ray Review

Women face a complex and compounded pressure of perfection when it comes not just to initial reception of their artistic achievements, but also their...

Aurora Borealis | 2017 Warsaw Film Festival Review

Daughters of the Dawn: Meszaros Examines Painful Period with Reconciliation Drama Hungary’s cinematic canon can’t be discussed without a deliberation on the importance of Marta...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

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.