In theaters November 21st. Learn more at: http://www.agirlwalkshome.com The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut 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.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the film "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" touted as the first "Iranian Vampire Western" at the Paramount in Wellington last night, screened as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival. With an atmospheric pace, terrific black and white cinematography, and enthralling music, it carried echoes of early work of Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch, but with a definite quirky humour and hipness of its own.
