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A vampire is such a accessible animal for filmmakers in chase of a allegory or two. Mortality is usually the aboriginal bite, and Ana Lily Amirpour's beauteous aboriginal feature, "A Babe Walks Home Alone at Night," absolutely takes a ache at that.
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) - IMDb | a girl walks home alone at nightBut it is the way in which the writer-director uses the bogeyman of vampires and vices to booty an askance cut at Iranian gender backroom and U.S.-Eurocentric pop ability that sets the blur apart. They ability assume poles apart, but the mashup is accidentally on the nose, or neck, or wherever abroad a vampire ability accept to feed.
The Iranian American filmmaker, who was built-in in London but grew up in Miami and now lives in California, builds the allegorical Bad City, area the vampire lurks, out of $.25 and pieces of a aggregation of account and influences.
In about every accommodation the administrator makes, there is a affected risk, added auspicious anniversary time she takes it. The blur is attempt in atramentous and white. The additional chat is announced in Farsi (with English subtitles). The soundtrack draws on addictive Iranian bedrock and 1980s-era U.K.-style techno pop. The aftereffect is an animating melange of Amirpour's parents' memories of their citizenry and her own adventures and impressions.
The pump in the desolate, corrupt oil boondocks of Bad City, like a behemothic automated praying mantis, is amid the acicular imagery, an abiding admonition that issues of business as abundant as adoration adhere in the air. (Parts of Bakersfield angle in nicely.)
Lorraine Ali
In ¿A Babe Walks Home Alone at Night,¿ a vampire¿s floor-length, atramentous chador makes her one with the caliginosity as she cruises the bare streets of Bad City for her abutting meal.
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Big Screen Berkeley: 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night' — Berkeleyside | a girl walks home alone at nightIn ¿A Babe Walks Home Alone at Night,¿ a vampire¿s floor-length, atramentous chador makes her one with the caliginosity as she cruises the bare streets of Bad City for her abutting meal. (Lorraine Ali)
The vampire is a girl, and as with all the characters, she's articular as a type, not by name. From a distance, the Girl, played with a apparitional adroitness by Sheila Vand ("Argo"), looks like she's cutting a chador, arch and anatomy covered in a atramentous close advised to bisect her from the world. That she is the best alarming of all is but one of the satisfying, acrid touches.
As the camera moves closer, we see that her apparel is afterpiece to cape than chador, generally amplification abaft her in the wind. Fitting since, in a camp way, Amirpour has fabricated her a crusader too.
A skateboard copped from the Little Boy (Milad Eghbali) becomes the Girl's adopted approach of busline and gives the blur some ties to avant-garde times. But there is a actual able awakening ache active through the film, from the vinyl annal the Babe plays to her accessible adulation interest, the Persian James Dean (Arash Marandi). In his white T-shirt, jeans and covering jacket, he does admonish you of a 1950s-era heartthrob.
Since this is as abundant an ancient affair as a political statement, there is a "meet cute" for the couple. The Persian is drunk, lost, aggravating to acquisition his way home from a apparel party. He went as Dracula. She's out attractive for a late-night snack. They end up talking instead, until she takes him home.
Sparks don't absolutely fly, but there is an actual and awesome allure you aces up on — allotment smoldering, allotment surreal. They are strangers, but they accept affairs with abounding of the aforementioned characters. Bad City is a baby town, all lives interconnected.
["199.82"]The Persian is the abutting affair "A Babe Walks Home Alone at Night" has to an innocent. The blow of the players are altered shades of bad, anniversary abacus layers to the credibility Amirpour is making.
The Pimp (Dominic Rains) runs drugs and women and is ruthless. The Prostitute ("The Blacklist" and "House of Cards'" Mozhan Marnò) works the streets for him because it's the alone assignment she can find. The Gambler ("How I Met Your Mother's" Marshall Manesh), additionally the heartthrob's father, is ample in his assorted addictions, heroin supplied by the Pimp the best deadly. The Rich Babe (Rome Shadanloo) is an advantaged tease, abnormally back it comes to the hot gardener, who is the Persian James Dean. The Rockabilly (Reza Sixo Safai) is a transgender-esque man/woman and about airy to the association of Bad City, who no agnosticism would adopt he not exist.
The Babe is boring alive her way admitting the bunch, chief who should alive or die. So is the heartthrob; he's aloof not handing out afterlife sentences. Her drive is as abundant about appropriate and amiss as hunger, admitting it's never said. The added afire catechism beneath application is whether adulation will change one or both of them, but not in an ooey-gooey "Twilight" way.
Amirpour formed with cinematographer Lyle Vincent, assembly artist Sergio De La Vega and apparel artist Natalie O'Brien, in a beheld appearance that drew on such disparate influences as Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns and Michael Jackson's "Thriller." Within that tableau, the actors extend the tone, dancing about anniversary added and about issues as if they were at the benevolence of armament far above them. The vampire suggesting, conceivably not.
Amirpour's allure with cadaverous storytelling can be traced to her aboriginal abstracts with film, a slasher abbreviate attempt with her dad's camera back she was 12. The writer-director's 2012 activated short, "A Little Suicide," was about a cockroach's brainy breakdown. Abutting up, she's alive on a aborigine adulation story.
For now, "A Babe Walks Home Alone at Night" is a anesthetic aftertaste of Amirpour's work, abounding with abundant artistic apparatus to edge the appetence for more.
["1164"]betsy.sharkey@latimes.com
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'A Babe Walks Home Alone at Night'
Not rated
Running time: 1 hour, 47 minutes, Farsi with English subtitles
Playing: Nuart Theatre, West Los Angeles
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