A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)

A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT 
    D: Ana Lily Amirpour                    (2014)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh,
    Mozhan Marnò, Dominic Rains, Rome Shadanloo
A woman walks the night streets alone in a place called Bad City. She wears a chador over a striped pullover and sometimes rides a skateboard. She rarely speaks and has a solemn look about her and seems to appear or vanish at will. And every now and then, when the urge and opportunity come together, she finds a neck to bite and feeds. The woman has no name, and she's a vampire, and this is not like any other vampire movie you've ever seen. It's in black and white and it was filmed in and around Bakersfield, California, but everybody in it speaks Farsi and the signage is in Arabic script. It plays out at its own pace, which is usually dead slow. The music on the soundtrack is a mixture of spaghetti western riffs and pop tunes from the Middle East. The nocturnal cityscape looks like a vacant industrial slum. Sheila Vand in the title role is a strangely enticing, sad-eyed angel of death. A guy walking the night streets alone in a place like Bad City, or Bakersfield, California, could fall for a vampire like that.