That's how I fell in love!

Grace Jones - "Strange" (from "Frantic")




Confessions of Miss Mischief : The Guardian - Saturday March 29, 2008

When Marjane Satrapi was a rebellious 14-year-old in Tehran, her parents sent her to Europe, afraid she'd fall foul of the Revolutionary Guard. Now she has turned her comic book memoir into an award-winning film. She talks to Simon Hattenstone
Personal view ... Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi gusts into the room like a hurricane. She is a tiny woman propped up on huge white platform heels. She is dressed in black and is beautiful in a cubist way - Picasso could have sculpted her. Her hair is black, her mouth is a gash of red lipstick, she is talking 20 to the dozen, and smoke seems to be pouring out of every visible orifice. Everything about her is cartoon-like. Which is appropriate because she is best known as a cartoon character in her own comic books.
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http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2268724,00.html