A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

(2014)

Ana Lily Amirpour • 101 minutes • Optie B

Tickets

Location: Optie B

Address: Polluxstraat 10, 2516 AX Den Haag

Regular ticket € 11,00

Cineville € 5,50

English subtitles included

Doors open at 20:00, the film starts at 20:30

You’ll find drinks, popcorns, tony chocolonely chocolate, and cake for sale.

IN CASE OF RAIN THE SCREENING WILL BE MOVED INSIDE OPTIE B

Bad City is the name of the oil-producing Iranian ghost-town. In such a place, inhabited by sad and lonely men who make a massive consumption of drugs and exercise power over women, there is a dark presence|: The Girl. In her black and long chador, she stalks disrespectful men at night, approaches them, and then sucks their blood with her sharp canine teeth. The girl’s life takes a shift when she meets Arash, a man different from the others. The two of them fall slowly in love and start a horrific and romantic adventure.

Immersed in a gloomy atmosphere made with the use of black and white, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is about reclaiming female power. Bad City is just a hyperbole about the violence and abuses that women experience all over the world. The Girl is a modern heroine with heavy eyeliner and a traditional chador, who speeds through the city on her skateboard looking for women to protect, and men to kill.

An important component of the film is the music (ranging from Iranian rock bands and British post-punk) that transports the viewer to different atmospheres. It also played a role in the preparation of A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. Indeed, the film director Ana Lily Amirpour made different playlists for each of the actors to get help get them in the mindset of the character. In addition to it, they had to watch iconic films such as  Man Without a Name, Wild at Heart, and Once Upon a Time in the West. This led A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night to be a film full of references to be discovered.

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