‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’

So few surprises at the Oscars that hardly worth pausing to mention (although delighted for Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne and J.K.Simmons).

So on with the everyday – not that A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is what I would describe as an everyday feature. It’s probably (almost certainly) the first b/w Iranian vampire feature directed by a woman: throw into the mix the fact that whilst filmed in Farsi, locations were California…. That alone would make it seeing.

And it’s certainly interesting. Not sure I would go as overboard as some critics have (a new vampire classic – The Playlist) – beguiling is more appropriate. The feature-length debut by award-winning director Ana Lily Amirpour of taking itself a little too artily seriously at times – longeurs of nothingness in semi-lit streets. But you certainly get drawn in.

Rating: 58%

Director: Ana Lily Amirpour

Writer: Ana Lily Amirpour

Main cast: Sheila Vand (Argo), Arash Marandi (Kunduz: The Incident at Hadji Ghafur)