Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature -- a black-and-white vampire film -- stars a Farsi-speaking cast that includes Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi and Dominic Rains. By Boyd van Hoeij A Girl Walks Home Alone ...

The world may not have known that it needed a black-and-white, Iranian, feminist vampire movie, but "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" turns out to be an utterly essential film. Perfectly paced and ...

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour The oft-heard label “Iranian vampire western,” which highlights the pop, postmodern, and cross-generic character of Ana Lily Amirpour’s fresh and ...

Watch a clip from the film "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night," starring Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi and Marshall Manesh. Photo/Video: Kino Lorber and Vice Films Just when you think you’ve seen it all—I ...

The vampire, a Persian-speaking waif called the Girl (Sheila Vand), also wears a striped fishing shirt and an occasional smear across her mouth that isn’t lipstick. She’s taken the skateboard from a ...

This is an image from the film “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” distributed by Vice. I wasn’t expecting to find love in a neo-noir Iranian vampire film. I mean, I had heard good things. I was ...

For centuries, vampires have provided handy metaphors for social and physical dilemma, but in the stylishly muted deadpan romance “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,” the threat is personal.

4.5 stars %28out of 5%29 You don't see a lot of Iranian vampire love stories%2C but that's what this is. Sheila Vand manages to give soul to a dead-eyed vampire. The imagery%2C framing and soundtrack ...

Watching Ana Lily Amirpour's feature debut is like discovering Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi or Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs for the first time. Before becoming the kings of genre-mashing, the ...

Very few films come along that deserve to be called “original.” A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the debut feature from young Iranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour, is one of them. Shot in ...

This tightly scripted, pictorially lavish, downbeat romantic fantasy—the first feature written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour—is set in a desolate Iranian town but was filmed in California. The ...