A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (new movie, highly recommended)

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I saw this movie a few days ago- EASILY my favorite movie of the year.
Here’s the Wiki page.

Here’s a great (but kinda spoilery) review from Buzzfeed.
It’s funny how much I agreed with the first line of that review- last spring, when I saw Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, if you’d have told me that there’d be an even better vampire movie before the year came to a close, I’d have said it was impossible. Somehow, it managed to happen.

Director Ana Lilly Amirpour made a vampire movie that feels like a 60s French New Wave film …with a little bit of 20s/30s German Expressionist Horror thrown in …and somehow seamlessly includes a bit of 80s John Hughes (you kind of have to see it to believe it).

It’s beautifully shot. This is one of those movies where you could take any random still, and it would hold up as a beautifully composed photograph.
Interestingly, this is actually an American film. I sat down to watch it thinking I was watching an Iranian film (it’s in Farsi and it takes place in Iran). At a few points in the movie I thought to myself “How did they get that past the Iranian censors?” Turns out it was filmed in the San Joaquin Valley in California.

It’s currently playing in three theaters in the L.A. area, one theater in NYC, one theater in Tulsa, OK, and one theater in Columbus, OH. If you get a chance to see this movie, I highly recommend it!

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UPDATE: it’s available to stream on Netflix now.

So, now it’s easy to watch it. I highly recommend that you do so. :slight_smile:

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I agree with your assessment. It’s funny you should mention Jim Jarmusch. My first reaction to this movie was that someone had made a better Jim Jarmusch vampire film than Jim Jarmusch.

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P.S. You should have mentioned vampires in the thread title to get more responses from this crowd. :wink:

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I was quite looking forward to this one but seeing it in theater never quite fit into my schedule so was happy when it showed up on Netflix.

Unfortunately it just never engaged me. Got about 80% of the way through, mostly bored, when something interrupted me. A week later I’ve not gone back to finish it off. So unless something spectacular happens in those last 15 minutes it was a miss for me.

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thanks for letting us know :smiley:

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Watched the DVD a couple nights ago.

The acting is great, but what I really love is the B&W photography. Very well done.

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I agree. I’ll repeat what I said above, this is one of those films from which you could lift any random still and it would stand on its own as a beautifully composed photograph.

obfusciatrist, are you a fan of Jarmusch? Wim Wenders? Linklater? Antonioni? Or any other filmmakers who make films in which pretty much nothing compelling ever happens? Just wondering.