Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a pIace that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a loneIy vampire is stalking the towns most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to bIossom... bIood red.
Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature A Girl WaIks Home Alone at Night basks in the sheer pIeasure of puIp. A joyfuI mash-up of genre, archetype and iconography, its proIific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the lranian New Wave. Amped by a mix of Iranian rock, techno and Morricone-inspired riffs, its airy, anamorphic, black-and-white aesthetic and artfuIly drawn-out scenes combine the simmering tension to make the first lranian Vampire Western. |