![]() The events exist within a kind of imagined Iranian underworld of pimps, hookers, drug dealers and street urchins. It's principal character is a Persian woman vampire - who stalks the town, robed in a black chador, which is quite an unsettling shadow to behold standing 10 feet away from a potential victim late at night. However, this does not work against the film (whose strength is its visuals) at all, as the dialogue is at all times minimal and slow, thus making the reading easy and unobstructive to the fascinating camera work. The dialogue is all Persian (Farsi) - even though the movie was shot in America, standing in for Iran - and is subsequently sub-titled. Like Jarmusch's work, the movie is shot in atmospheric black and white - and it works beautifully. But as virtually everyone who studies film has pointed at the stylistic similarity, she's taking it as a compliment. Interestingly, in an interview between her and legendary producer/director Roger Corman on the DVD extras, she claims she's not much of a fan of Jarmusch. Set in an oil industry ghost town-like city in Iran, this movie, directed by newcomer Ana Lily Amirpour - an American of Iranian descent - is highly reminiscent of Jim Jarmusch's early style. Reviewed by AlsExGal 8 / 10 Moody Iranian vampire film
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