A girl walks home alone at night. What happens next will shock you. You see, the girl is a vampire. She has no name. She is the bloodthirsty inheritor of Clint Eastwood’s ‘The Man With No Name’ legacy. The girl has retractable incisors, much like Wolverine’s adamantium claws. The girl lives in an industrial ghost town somewhere in Iran called ‘Bad City’. Shot in high contrast black and white which blunts the red and makes everything seem even more profound than it already is, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut film is full of silences, coolth and slo-mo. Basically it will make you want to be a vampire, wear a modified chador (a kind of persian hijab) as a cape, throw meaningful glances and maybe, use a skateboard. I’m not going to say anything more about the film because it is best that it be discovered and not eulogised but A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is the antidote to your Twilight ennui.
Film It Is Closest To: Let The Right One In
Film It Is Farthest From: The Twilight Series
Do Not Watch If: You hate subtitles or violent women.
Lady Middlebrow 