Thursday 9 October 2014

Iranian vampires at the BFI film festival London

Playing in Official Competition at the BFI London film festival, "A GIRL WHO WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT" is a stunning debut feature, blending an arresting genre mashup with contemporary gender politics.
 
Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the towns most unsavoury inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom…blood red.
 
The first Iranian Vampire Western, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut feature basks in the shear pleasure of pulp. A joyful mashup of genre, archtype, 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, atmospheric, black-and-white aesthetic and artfully drawn-out scenes combine the simmering tension of Sergio Leone with the weird surrealism of David Lynch.
 
To get tickets to this, and other films at the BFI London Film Festival, visit the BFI Website.




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