A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

“The number of influences here could have made “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night” yet another movie-mad parody or an arch exercise in style; instead, the film launches itself into a dreamspace of its own that has a unique power and pull. The images are suggestive and symbolic, resonant with intersecting meanings and emotion, nothing too spelled out or underlined. Some of the images sit there unmoving for too long, but that very same stasis also helps create and enforce the underlying tension, the tormented space between people even when they are standing very close together. The film feels extremely personal. It is clear in every frame that Amirpour has put her own dream onscreen.” – Roger Ebert

“In the hipsterised vampire genre of Jim Jarmusch and Abel Ferrara, Amirpour has found her own funny, smart expression for teenage-bedroom loneliness, romantic isolation and a kind of perpetual emotional exile. This has nothing to do with Twilight, but it is personal, and I suspect almost autobiographical, in ways that aren’t too far from Stephenie Meyer. This film is just occasionally a bit too cool for school – but mostly just cool enough, which is very cool.” – The Guardian