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Billed as “the first Iranian vampire Western,” 2014’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is an odd and sometimes unsettling tale about loneliness in the strange town known as Bad City. A hit at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, director Ana Lily Amirpour’s black-and-white production is low on frills but high on style, depicting the very cool girl of the title (a sleek and cloaked Sheila Vand)… who just might be a bloodsucker.
O.K., she is a vampire. No point in denying it. But the question surrounding her seems to be whether or not she’s a bad vampire. Helping her find her way in this journey is Arash (Arash Marandi), a working-class young man with a heroin addict for a father and, seemingly, a not too bright future ahead of him. As he veers this way and that in his life, with little direction, it’s his run-in with the nameless vampire girl — who keeps a poster of Madonna on her wall, listens to LPs in her spare time, and rides a skateboard while hunting (and makes all of those things look awesome) — that will change things for him forever.
The girl certainly can be scary when she wants to be; she’s not particularly fond of a local pimp who beats up the women who work for him, for example. But it’s her scenes with Arash that really sing. They’re two lost souls who have, somehow, found something in one another. Of course, things are never that simple, and the girl’s vampiric tendencies threaten to upend any chance these two might have of a happy ending.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is definitely of the more arthouse variety of vamp flicks, with Amirpour taking her good old time to let things play out, always focused first and foremost on the emotions at play in a scene. It’s not an action movie, or a horror flick, really, but rather a simple love story with the coolest vampire to bare her fangs onscreen in some time. Give this one a watch.
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