IMDb plot summary: In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. Starring Shela Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, and Mozhan Marnò.
This isn't a plot-centric movie, it's all about the cinematic atmosphere being created, and wow, is it a haunting one. This film moves slowly and deliberately through its world, and that meant it frequently took me by surprise by how intense I found it. I'd be vaguely bored with long slow shots of characters sitting sadly, and then all of a sudden I'd realize I was terrified, or deeply sad, or some other big emotion. Ana Lily Amirpour's directorial choices really crept up on me. Aside from the cinematography, the score is always startlingly impactful. It's never what I would have expected as a film score for any particular scene, but it always set the mood perfectly. A lot of times I find that films relying this heavily on film language can become predictable for me, but I genuinely never knew where this film was taking me, and I loved that. This is one that is going to sit with me for quite some time, I'm sure.
How it entered my Flickchart:
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night > One, Two, Three
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night > The Black Cat
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night > Revengers Tragedy
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night < Frozen
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night < 50/50
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night > Citizen Kane
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night < The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night < The World's End
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night < Once
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night > (500) Days of Summer
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night > I.Q.
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night < White Christmas
Final spot: #359 out of 3327, or 89%.
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