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