https://vo.rs/tags/iranian-cinema/Latest from the Iranian Cinema desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night-the-iranian-vampire-western/<p>The best joke in <em>A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night</em> is buried in the title. It is the sentence a young woman is warned never to let become true, the setup for a hundred cautionary tales and true-crime reconstructions, the phrase that means she is about to become a victim. Ana Lily Amirpour takes it and reverses the polarity. In her film the girl walking home alone at night is the most dangerous thing in the city, and the men who prey on women are the ones who should be afraid of the dark. It is a vampire film, a western, a mood piece, and a small act of revenge, and it announced one of the most distinctive new voices in genre cinema when it arrived in 2014.</p>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000