You may watch the trailer for Persepolis, here, and wonder why you should particularly care about a cartoon drawn in a crude black and white style and with not a beautifully rendered strand of fur or patch of dappled sunlight to be seen. You would be wrong to think this.
Persepolis is getting fantastic word from early screenings and has been chosen as France's official selection for the 2008 Oscars, a rare thing for an animation.
Persepolis is based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, who co-directs the film with Vincent Paronnaud, and tells the story of a young girl growing up in Iran during the time of revolution and watching fundamentalists take over, force women to wear veils and put thousands of people in jail. The film has drawn some displeasure from the Iranian government, but won the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes and the Southerland Trophy at the London Film Festival. So it's really quite good.