(Ana Lily
Amirpour/2014/USA)
I loved
every minute of this, a Persian language film shot entirely in
California and a great debut from Amirpour. Set in fictional Iranian
back water Bad City she mashes up spaghetti western vibes with modern
day vampirism. Shot in black and white, because it’s cooler, we
follow Ashram as he works for a wealthy family by day and takes care
of his heroin addicted father by night. We also see the titular girl
as she wanders the streets at night. The two meet and some kind of
crazy love blossoms in this hip, genre bending, Tarantino does
Persepolis flick. The skate scene is one of the coolest things I’ve
seen on screen in a long time.
(4/5)
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