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Epic and disproportionate fresco, Smart Monkey describes the ancestral fight of the weakest to survive against brute force. In the palaeolithic jungle, a small roguish monkey faces dangerous predators. An epilogue taking place centuries later reminds us that civilization did not build itself upon good feelings.
One of everyone’s most favourite animated films in the past decade, Persepolis is the French-Iranian adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic autobiography, depicting the life of an Iranian bourgeois family surrounded by revolutionary social changes and their daughter’s coming-of-age and emigration.