PERSEPOLIS: A

Marjane Satrapi, the feisty Iranian heroine of the marvelous animated movie Persepolis, is animated in more ways than one. The young woman — the autobiographical creation of actual feisty Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi — is a restless soul who refuses to conform. Even under the head scarf she's required to wear when the theocrats take over during Iran's Islamic revolution, Marjane is a rebel with a love of punk music and a need to make her own mistakes, on her own timetable, never mind the mullahs. She's the most fully drawn female character in movies this year, only black and white and flat all over. —Lisa Schwarzbaum

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