Welcome back to This Week In Discs! If you see something you like, click on the title to buy it from Amazon. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Arash stands apart from the downtrodden populace of Bad City with his blue jeans, white tee-shirt and classic American car, but it’s his ambition for something more than this dead-end town can offer that keeps him moving. His dreams take a hit thanks to his junkie father and a local thug, but something dark and wondrous is just around the corner. Drifting through the night is a young woman (Sheila Vand) whose casual dress is complemented by a jet black chador, and while she’s a girl of very few words she’s not shy about making her intentions known. Sometimes it’s feasting on the blood of the town heavy, other times it’s dancing alone to American pop music, but when she crosses paths with Arash both of them discover a partner who may just be perfect in their imperfections. You’d be forgiven for being immediately turned off at the idea of a black & white “Iranian vampire western,” but to avoid the film based on an official tagline that ultimately tells you very little would be an unfortunate mistake. Writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour‘s feature debut is a gorgeously-photographed and highly unconventional vampire tale about the willful ignorance sometimes required to see the best in the people we suck on and sometimes even love. It’s an acquired taste that I’d gladly keep selfishly laid across my tongue, but at the same time […]
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