vampire stories
“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” is romantic and refreshingly vampire film
By GTVW Staff
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“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”, it’s a film full of joyful mash-up of genre and prolific influences spanning spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, with influences of the Iranian New Wave. While comparisons have been made to Jarmusch, Lynch, Tarantino, and Sergio Leone, the film is wholly original and refreshingly daring, signaling the arrival of a bold new voice with writer/director Amirpour.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night also features an impressive cast of actors including leads Sheila Vand (Argo), Arash Marandi (Kunduz: The Incident at Hadji Ghafur) and Dominic Rains (The Taqwacores), as well as Mozhan Marnó (House of Cards, The Stoning of Soraya M), Rome Shadanloo, Marshall Manesh and Milad Eghbali.
Definitely the youthful energy with nowhere to go of two of the main characters, the mystery of the ambience and a beautiful vintage car make this film fascinating. Sheila Vand as a vampire in a chador, looks innocent but aggressive when she has to be. During 107 minutes, in black and white film, any viewer will enjoy many cultural forms of vampirism.
Only Lovers Left Alive is no part of another vampire mythology
Review by Jenny Alvarez
Only Lovers Left Alive is a romance drama vampire film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, and John Hurt. Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover.
Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. The effect of throwing human mortality into stark relief, provide some of the weirdest moments for those in the know.
This film has wonderful production design, music cuts and photography despite of some scenes were a little bit longer that it seems, the plot is consistent and well structured as well. It has black humor especially when Adam spits, “zombie central” sarcasm of people from Hollywood. This movie will we open in Los Angeles on April 11th, 2014.
