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Arash tries to kiss her, but he gets rejected and she dances with somebody else. Like a mosaic of shimmering fragments that do not compose a bigger picture, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature brims with stylised qualities that have been prioritised over story and characters. She has also said that "every piece of the story, every character, every costume, every bit of music" is something that she "love to the point of obsession." The film's protagonist, The Girl, is a sort-of antihero vigilante with a taste for bad men. As a vampire, she is able to roam the streets at night without being concerned for her safety, subverting the implications of the film's title.
A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave. As a lonesome young female vampire who's had to get a bit creative with the locals from time to time. Shot in black and white with slow direction and fantastic lighting this modern vampire love story gives a slightly different interpretation on the popular teenage vampire genre.
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He gives her the earrings he stole, and says that it is pity that she can't wear them. The Girl gives him a safety pinto make a hole in her ears.Arash hits the pin with his lighter and creates the hole. The Girl turns her head around and can't avoid to show her fangs in a reflex act.She controls herself and offers her other ear.
Solutions Video marketing Create and promote branded videos, host live events and webinars, and more. Director Ana Lily Amirpour, who bears a somewhat similar resemblance to Sheila Vand actually performed the skateboarding sequences in the film for the the long shots.
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The movie is more about telling a story than instilling fear. Saeed and the Girl cross paths on a deserted street at night. He throws away his cigarette and speaks to her. He makes a sign with his head and takes the Girl to his apartment. He immediately resorts to snort cocaine and turns the music up.
It never really picks up any sort of pace, and the slow, meandering script lacks any real emotional centre. Suffering from heroin withdrawal, Hossein has an episode where he believes that Arash's cat is his dead wife. Infuriated by his father, Arash gives him drugs and money and throws him out, telling him to take the cat with him.
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Atti, a prostitute who worked for Saeed, is followed at night by the woman, and they retreat to the prostitute's apartment. The woman gives Atti the payment Saeed owed her. They have a conversation during which the woman realizes that Atti no longer remembers what it is to desire.
When I see a film made after the 1960s made in black-and-white it makes me weary at first. Some films do it as a gimmick, others to make it seem more artsy then other indie films, and some use it with purpose. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night thankfully is the latter of these scenarios and a wonderful debut feature length film for it's director, Ana Lily Amirpour. The film is a blend of horror, western films, film noir, and romance all mashed into one creatively original piece of cinema. It revolves around a small group of characters and their relationships.
Arash pets Masuka while the attache and its contents are by its side. Ashad waits outside while smoking a cigarette. The Girl leaves and Arash enters the flat. He stares at Saeed's blood-stained dead body. He uses the opportunity to retrieve his car keys. In a attache he finds cocaine and a gun.
They are harassed by a cruel, drug-dealer pimp named Saeed, who seizes the young man's prized car in exchange for money the father owes him. In a crime of opportunity, Arash steals a pair of diamond earrings from the wealthy young woman he works for, Shaydah. The Girl keeps on stalking the illuminated nights. Arash is staring at one of the street lamps.The Girl skates by but stops in front of him. A drugged Arash asks the Girl where they are, as he got lost.
In it's defense though it isn't entirely a horror movie. It is more of a story about being trapped in a bad area where the only way to get anywhere is to leave, and that's easier said than done. All of that is mixed in with plenty of weirdness to create one the best vampire films in years. The film opens with a scene of a vast wasteland, Bad City, populated with oil drilling machines and a palpable sense of being a quasi ghost town. Here, Arash a lonely teenager with a drug addicted father who consistently owes money to a dealer, tries his best to make a living working as a gardener for a rich family. Unknown to him, the city is inhabited by a lonely young vampire whose name we never learn.
The Girl pushes him on her skate and takes him to her home. A young rockabilly-looking youngster picks up a cat . It is young Arash, , an Iranian young man.
This movie has a lot of really great moments to it--I loved all the scenes with the two protagonists, for instance, and a lot of others. However, there were a lot of very long musical interludes with abstract shots which were beautiful, but slowed down the film and the story I was interested in. Still, the central story and the main characters were incredibly compelling, and in my opinion, the movie ends perfectly, so it's worth the wait to get there. The while film is in black and white giving it the feel of those old school horror movies of the 30's and 40's. Sheila Vand certainly can be creepy as the vampire, it's amazing what a dark cloak and pale face can do to make one look unnerving, but the movie isn't scary at all. Only a few moments of actual vampirism take place.
