“For this month of Halloween, the editorial staff of Konbini is preparing a horrifying series for you. From creepypastas to little-known horror films, passing by curses from elsewhere, a daily article will make you shiver until the day of the dead. original than those you will see elsewhere, in any case with more surprising and rare films. That’s why we attack this cinephile Spooktober with A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a horrifying Iranian feature film, vampires, black and white, feminist and in Persian. It scares you (and not in the good sense of the term)? Trust us, you’ll understand why it’s a great film, accessible, strong and a perfect Halloween warm-up. A small anomaly in Iranian cinemaGlobally, we don’t watch enough films from the Middle and Near East. There are however nuggets – it is not Marjane Satrapi who will tell you the opposite. Even in Iranian cinema, which remains the best known, we often only remember Abbas Kiarostami or Ashgard Farhadi – and this despite recent nuggets, namely The Law of Tehran and Leila and her brothers (both from the same filmmaker, Saeed Roustaee), but also Les Nuits de Mashhad or Hit The Road. If you look closer, you can find things that are off the beaten path in these dramatico-comic nuggets. So without warning, Ana Lily Amirpour (who later directed The Bad Batch for Netflix and the film Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon), an Iranian-British filmmaker, released her feature debut in 2014, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Let’s go back a bit more to the description given in the introduction. To begin with, this is a horror film. Finally, a genre film (if that expression really means anything). However, we are not going to lie to each other: on the side of Iranian cinema, it is extremely rare. Even a unique case. In this sense, if you find this cinema to be particularly rich, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a curiosity not to be missed. Especially since it seems to be an anomaly in the matrix. If you take a look at the recent history of Iranian cinema, which is clearly one of the most exciting of the moment, you will quickly understand that it is very difficult to shoot in Iran. Remember what Zahra Ami Ebrahimi told us a few weeks ago about the impossibility of filming on location without undergoing censorship. However, what A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night tells us is precisely misogyny of Iranian society, of the harassment suffered by women. This vampire is the metaphor for women’s revenge, in this culture where the law no longer reigns for anyone. Because this vampire only kills men who have assaulted or abused women. The fact that this venture could be shot in Iran seems like a minor miracle. All wrapped up in a black-and-white, art-house film envelope that’s going to hang out as much on the romance side as the movie. sheer horror. That’s not to mention the soundtrack, the young “cool kid” who listens to vinyl, does editing and photography, which makes A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night a unique and successful object that deserves all your attention and a good way to start this month of October. but which speaks of possession against the background of the war between Iran and Iraq. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is available on VOD, and on DVD/Blu-ray (rarer nonetheless).
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