A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Contemporary Cinema
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1h 40m
Leaving November 1
Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour | 104 mins | 2014
Amirpour’s atmospheric, entirely original, black-and-white thriller gave an infusion of fresh blood to the venerable vampire movie genre, revolving around the figure of a mysterious, chador-clad female bloodsucker who exercises a powerful pull on a young man trying to scrape out a living in the dilapidated Iranian ghost town of Bad City.
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