Persepolis

happy.

Yeah, we want to also, we are going to see also Persepolis to celebrate, of course, Marjan Satrapi.

And I think, you know, this is a good way also to collaborate with a partner like Kering, who is the founding partner of it, because...

It shows the common values between the French and Italian cinemas and especially with Chiara being so much in between those two cultures.

And we like to look at them as a group once we get to fourth quarter and we realize like we did a classic we did Frankenstein, we did a cult classic fried green tomatoes.

We did a nonfiction graphic memoir or something totally different in Persepolis.

And we really had the idea that we wanted to do something more of the moment and something

a little bit more positive and uplifting because it is going to be fourth quarter where if you're in our hemisphere, that's when it gets darker earlier and people might need a little bit more uplift.

Now what's interesting about this pic, it's like Persepolis was the first time we picked a graphic novel as a read-along.

This time with this novel, it is actually started as an adaptation of a song.

Yes, this became unexpectedly a viral song in 2015 that led the author of the song to write a novel, which then became Persepolis.

a movie

I've heard of that one, yeah.

And later productions, notably the graphic novel and film Persepolis, demonstrated to Iranian creators that highly stylized visual storytelling could translate their specific cultural or political experiences to a massive global audience.

Okay, so they have this deep well of allegorical storytelling.

Mm-hmm.