Starting at 7:30 pm, American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre presents PERSEPOLIS from directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Payronnaud. Marjane Satrapi's graphic novels detailing her youth and developing feminist consciousness growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution come to life in this often comic, black-and-white animated film influenced by German Expressionism and Italian Neo-Realism. Rebellious, precocious Marjane discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden as bombs drop and her outspoken uncle is senselessly executed in war-ravaged Tehran. When she's a teen, her parents send her to live in Austria, away from religious and political tyranny, but eventually she returns home to her family, even though she must literally and figuratively live under the veil of fundamental extremism. When it gets to be more than she can bear, she makes the heartbreaking decision to leave her homeland to find freedom. The Aero Theatre is located at 1328 Montana Avenue at 14th Street in Santa Monica.
