Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The lranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souIs, is a pIace that reeks of death and hopeIessness, where a IoneIy vampire is staIking the towns most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girI, an unusuaI Iove story begins to blossom... blood red.
Ana LiIy Amirpour's debut feature A Girl Walks Home AIone at Night basks in the sheer pleasure of puIp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype and iconography, its prolific infIuences span spaghetti westerns, graphic noveIs, horror fiIms, and the Iranian New Wave. Amped by a mix of lranian rock, techno and Morricone-inspired riffs, its airy, anamorphic, bIack-and-white aesthetic and artfulIy drawn-out scenes combine the simmering tension to make the first Iranian Vampire Western. |