![]() ![]() ![]() One is a heterosexual vampire, the other is a mortal bisexual. Like Akhavan’s heroine Shirin, Amirpour’s woman has a certain elegant self-possession and a faintly glum calm. It also has something of Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City.Ī Girl Walks Home Alone at Night makes an interesting pairing with Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behaviour, a movie in a different vein but with comparable comic reflexes, about the experience of being a young Iranian-American woman in the States, who is subject to pressure both from secular US society and from her expatriate parents who are wealthy, worldly, but with old-fashioned expectations. There is a power plant and an array of nodding oil derricks, but the whole place is weirdly deserted, just as in Jarmusch: the most crowded place is a bizarre plague-pit-type trench full of dead, but undecomposed bodies, past which people walk unconcernedly. ![]() This film is just occasionally a bit too cool for school – but mostly just cool enough, which is very cool.Ī lonely, thoughtful young woman in the traditional black veil, played by Sheila Vand, roams the night-time streets of a district in Iran, or a US-Iranian community, called Bad City: it could be on the outskirts of Tehran or Detroit. This has nothing to do with Twilight, but it is personal, and I suspect almost autobiographical, in ways that aren’t too far from Stephenie Meyer. In the hipsterised vampire genre of Jim Jarmusch and Abel Ferrara, Amirpour has found her own funny, smart expression for teenage-bedroom loneliness, romantic isolation and a kind of perpetual emotional exile. It comes from first-time feature director Ana Lily Amirpour, a British-born Iranian who grew up in the US and has imbibed the regulation amount of American movies, classic Americana and consumer culture, including but not restricted to ads for Coke and blue jeans. ![]() V ampire fans, Jarmusch fans and, most importantly of all, cat fans will find something to enjoy in this droll monochrome comedy of the Iranian undead, which comes with music from the Iranian band Kiosk, who have a definite Tom Waits-y groan. ![]()
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