A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
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“I never met someone who didn't like hamburgers ”
Overview
Meet the Girl. With big eyes and dark hair like Anna Karina, and Breton shirts like Jean Seberg, she skateboards around the fictional town of Bad City at night. She’s Iranian and wears a chador, loves dance music and has seen Elvis and Black Sabbath live. Also, she’s a 187-year-old vampire. And she’s fallen pretty hard for Arash, with his floppy hair and James Dean white T-shirts. Arash’s father Hossein is an addict and swamped under a mountain of debt to a pimp named Saeed. Maybe The Girl can help.
Why See This Film
Director Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut feature was released 10 years ago and to our knowledge remains the only Iranian vampire-western film. Slick, cool, surreal, beautifully shot in moody black and white and drawing inspiration from filmmakers as diverse as Jim Jarmusch, Sergio Leone and Jean-Luc Godard, it captures a certain kind of ennui felt by all small-town teenagers, living or otherwise. Let A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night lull you into the rhythms of killing time and aimlessly skateboarding through empty nighttime streets.
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