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Ana Lily Amirpour's A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT garnered high praise when it premiered at Sundance earlier this year. Shot in black and white, it tells the story of a vampire stalking the streets of a desolated Iranian town, and promises a bit of a hybrid film, incorporating influences from just about every artistic influence imaginable.
Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, is a bastion of depravity and hopelessness where a lonely vampire stalks its most unsavory inhabitants.
Cinema’s first Iranian vampire western, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut feature basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave. Amped by a mix of Iranian rock, techno, and Morricone-inspired riffs, its airy, anamorphic, black-and-white aesthetic and artfully drawn-out scenes combine the simmering tension of Sergio Leone with the weird surrealism of David Lynch.
This is one of the most highly anticipated genre flicks of the year, and one you will definitely want to check out when it opens near you. It starts its limited theatrical run on November 21st, and an eye-catching poster has been released in anticipation. Check it out below, along with the film's trailer.
