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Radioactive director Marjane Satrapi in Glasgow
Photo: Glasgow Film Festival
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Persepolis director Marjane Satrapi has died. The Iranian French director, who was Oscar-nominated for her animation about a young Iranian girl set against the backdrop the Islamic Revolution, was 56.
In a statement received by the AFP newswire, announcing her death on June 3, her friends and family said: “Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life.”
Ripa was a Swedish producer and actor. He died on April 8 at the age of 53.
Satrapi was born in Iran but moved to Europe to study as a teenager. Persepolis, which began as a graphic novel before she adapted it, in collaboration with Vincent Paronnaud, into a film in 2007, was based on her own experiences.
The pair collaborated on a second film, Chicken With Plums, in 2011, which was again adapted from a graphic novel she had written.
Satrapi then moved into live action, directing action-comedy Gang Of The Jotas (La Bande des Jotas), then black comedy horror mash-up The Voices, starring Ryan Reynolds as a disturbed factory worker with dreams of romance.
She went on to director Rosamund Pike in Marie Curie biopic Radioactive, which saw her attend Glasgow Film Festival, and her final film was black comedy Dear Paris in 2024, starring Monica Bellucci.
Away from cinema, she was a life-long and outspoken critic of Iran's regime, refusing a legion d'honneur accolade in France last year, saying "I cannot ignore what I see as a hypocritical attitude from France with regards to Iran"
