A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

Really Surprised!

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A feminist persian vampire western with mesmerising black and white cinematography. The atmosphere itself makes it a great experience. Then there is the performances that are perfectly captured and even the cat does a fantastic job.

Admittedly I started this movie a couple of times but I couldn't quite get into it. I'm glad I did finally sit down and watch it all the way through. Once 'the Girl' shows up it picks up significantly. I found Sheila Vand quite mesmerizing and she steals scenes without saying a word. It almost could have worked with no dialogue as the music does a good job of setting the mood throughout. The vampire comes across as sensual but with a menace lurking behind her eyes.This won't be for everyone. It's light on story and isn't quite a horror. But it creates this atmosphere that had me captivated through to the end.

"A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" is an interesting movie. More a curiosity at moments than a movie with a body and a plot, it ends being saved by its atmosphere and the cinematography, even if some of its moments fall into the silly.A vampire is roaming an Iranian town. She goes around killing 'bad' men, talking with people and just being very, very shy. She becomes friends with a young guy. Will she end up killing him?Who are we kidding. The movie doesn't really care about vampires or anything. On the other hand, it has a very nice atmosphere and some of its aspects, like the music or the bleak black and white, give it an atmosphere close to a Western. The camera-work is good, and the direction acceptable enough. There are a couple of scenes really good. The acting, however, is a little bit stilted and, in a couple of occasions, just too silly. The vampire's movements are hilarious (not sure if on purpose)."A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" ends being a movie that will be enjoyed more by people who like their movies about atmosphere and 'messages'. Just forget about plot and pace.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is about...a vampire? I think that's about it, really. I actually haven't the slightest idea what this movie was supposed to be about. it doesn't have any real clear direction or anything. It just kind of goes along without any significance. I don't have anything good to say about this movie. Sometimes the pacing is alright, but there's no reason to praise a movie for simply not being boring. After all, isn't that the point?The movie is incredibly boring. As I watched it I slowly felt myself slipping farther and farther away from consciousness until eventually it happened...twice. Yeah, I actually dozed off twice during this movie. During one of the times when I dozed I woke up to find that the shot hadn't changed. Which brings me to my next point. This movie goes for style over substance. The only thing is that there's almost no style and zero substance. The director's idea of style is throwing on a black and white filter, and that's literally it. Due to the lack of dialogue and long shots this movie makes itself out to be somewhat important, like its trying to make some kind of statement. But it doesn't. Or at least it fails to intrigue the audience enough to make them want to actually think about what the movie might be trying to say. Due to the lack of much dialogue, the movie relies heavily on the actor's ability to convey emotion through their facial expressions, but all I saw were dead-pan faces and a couple basic emotions. Nothing complicated, nothing hard. No real skill there.Something I loved with complete and utter sarcasm were the lengthy shots. Long shots are usually a sign of a skilled filmmaker, or a way for the filmmaker to showcase how talented they and their actors are. This movie is full of those, only there's literally nothing happening whenever these long shots happen. Long shot of people sitting in car, not doing anything. Long shot of people staring at each other, but otherwise not moving or saying anything. Long shots of someone driving. Where's the skill in that? "See, he's such a good actor because he knows how to look like he's driving without crashing. Man, what talent!" Shut up, you pretentious piece of trash. This isn't skill, this is an angsty teenage filmmaker who doesn't know what an art house movie is. I wonder if he even knew that he was recording, if he just left the set to get a coffee and forgot to turn off the camera as well as tell the actors that they were done, thus creating these entirely meaningless long shots. To top it all off, this movie advertises itself as a horror, yet it fails to be even remotely scary. I've heard people talking about one scene involving a 'good boy' and saying how scary it was, but there was nothing even unsettling about that particular scene. It was just a vampire giving a little boy a pep talk. What's the big deal? That scene doesn't even have any relevance to anything. It didn't need to happen, and in fact was quite forced. It's a horror simply because there's a vampire in it. Overall A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is absolute trash. It's a pretentious snorefest, as I like to call it. It acts like it has meaning without any, and it's just boring. I paused the movie and grabbed my phone with the specific intention of setting an alarm to take a nap at some point during this 100 minute runtime. Somehow I made it through, but it was an effort that wasn't worth it. Don't watch this movie. Spare yourself the trouble. Seriously. And don't you dare tell me it's too deep for me to understand, because there's nothing to understand and you know that. In the end I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone, ever.