Continuity blurs together like a hazy, half-baked combination of The Poughkeepsie Tapes and I Spit On Your Grave , and then Eve unhinges with Braveheart on the mind.
Though utterly simplistic, “Persepolis” recounts the epic war time heartbreak and black hole of violence and horror in the vein of films like “Grave of the Fireflies” and “Osama,” and it’s a film I hope gets its due someday.
It not only informs the character’s state of mind in that sequence but it also becomes the weirdest reference to‘s “Pierrot Le Fou” (1965) since‘s “The Nice Guys” (2016).
Amy Adams became a movie star playing a princess living in a land out of a fairytale, someone so “Enchanted” she could summon her forest creature friends to help her get through her day.