A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Cool, supremely confident ...

Combing horror, film noir and westerns, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, is a refreshing take on vampire lore.

Like no movie you've ever seen.

It's a haunting story of love between two misfits who shouldn't be together.

There's not much story to speak of, but the semi-Iranian hipster feminist vampire romance A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is gorgeous to behold and up to its jugular vein in quirky/spooky atmosphere.

For all the visual ambition, this doesn't add up to anything terribly substantial.

A rich feast for eyes and ears, it is completely unlike any other vampire movie you have previously seen.

There's stylish clarity, security in the narrative,and an impecable atmosphere on screen. [Full review in Spanish]

A revolutionary and innovative look on themes as immortal as the night creature it appears in it. [Full review in Spanish]

Amirpour's debut feature is striking and excellent, though sometimes too self-congratulatory and too much in love with its cultural references. But one thing is for sure; Amirpour is on her way to becoming a great director.

... the film, shot in high-contrast black-and-white widescreen almost entirely at night, is like an Iranian film noir by way of a crime drama with supernatural edges.

Amirpour - shooting in black-and-white widescreen in southern California, for a little extra unreality - has built a marvellous world that offers room to wonder about the characters and their lives.