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Aug 17, 2012 9:16 AM EDT

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Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” won international acclaim as an autobiographical tale, told first in the form of a graphic novel, later turned into a film, of a young girl coming of age amid the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Now comes the film version of “Chicken With Plums,” another story based on her family’s history.

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