what´s so good about this movie ¿?
what do you think was the great thing about this movie ¿?
shareThe acting, the cinematography, the playfulness. Plus a new take on a vampire story.
shareExcuse me, 'the playfulness', what playfulness?
And in what way was that a 'new take'?
I'm sorry if you can't connect with what it's like to be young and beautiful and in a drug-fueled fantasy! Try to work it out in therapy.
shareYou don't sound sorry at all, in fact you sound condescending.
I can't 'connect' with arthouse nonsense, as it's on the whole pretentious garbage.
Sorry you pretend to like films to look 'cool' it's likely your age and something you will grow out of in time.
In ten years time you'll think you were an idiot for liking this...I promise.
Lol! You sound old.
shareI feel like saying that someone can't possibly like something you don't like is just silly, and delusional.
Just because a film can't connect with you, doesn't mean it can't connect with someone else.
Something can be arthouse and still enjoyable.
Gozu, The Reflecting Skin, Love Exposure, Pierrot Le Fou, Hardware, The Holy Mountain.
All films you would probably see as meandering hipster trash. Despite this, a lot of people, myself included, have a lot of love for them.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was a film i really enjoyed. I didn't pretend to enjoy it to appear interesting or edgy. I genuinely really liked the film. I thought it was interesting, and stood out as being particularly visually beautiful.
What exactly didn't you like about it?
Calling something 'pretentious' really doesn't mean much. It's usually the word people use instead of saying ''it was too artsy for me,'' which is fine by the way, just say that, instead of blaming the film.
There's nothing wrong with not liking a film, but it's a bit silly to blame the film for that, and call anyone else who likes it a liar.
actually, calling something "pretentious" has a specific meaning, i.e., the thing affects a depth which it actually lacks, using superficial or contrived flourishes to give an appearance of complexity and novelty to the simple and banal.
shareIndeed it does meant that...and that's precisely the way I used it.
All talk and no trousers this film.
I'm going on 40 and I rather enjoyed the film. Not the best I've ever seen, but enjoyable nonetheless.
shareI liked the black and white cinematography a lot. Also, the eerie atmosphere.
I didn't like the small subplot of the stolen drugs, as I thought that Saeed's providers wouldn't just let somebody else kill him and take his business.
I liked how silent the Girl is, and that she is morally and ethically aware of who she is killing. They are not random victims.
I liked the scenery, even the oil drilling machines. I didn't understand the dog roaming by. How is it possible that nobody - oil factory workers, a passerby, - realises that there is a body there? It is not as if Ashar has taken the trouble to bury it.
I liked the scene when Ashar is making the holes in the ears of the Girl so that she can wear the earrings.
I didn't like the train passing so close to the factory. It didn't look like there was a real railway there a second before. I wonder if there was a montage in this scene. I liked the ending. I hope that Atti can turn her life around.
All in all, I liked the film. There were some details I didn't like. For me, it didn't feel convoluted or slow. It reminded me of The Sixth Sense, which some people have told that it was very slow. I think that both these films have exactly the rhythm and pace that they should have.
Thank you! I wanted to see this film due to all the great critics and cos I wanted to feel intellectual, I guess. All the time I kept thinking "is there an Iranian/female message I don't get?" I loved the black\white and slowness of it, but overall..... what the hell? Honestly, why is it praised so much? What am I missing out on? Am I too old or young? 😏
sharehey Minx,
This movie is another example of a movie getting praise because of the desire to show good will toward anything even remotely watchable and kitsch from an area such as the near or far east.
The director is NOT IRANIAN by the way. She is straight up a privileged, European educated, hipster.
She has nothing to say. I've seen this before, just taking parts from "cool" films that one likes and throwing them in
to a movie. And why does some of these filmmakers who try too hard to be interesting always bring up David Lynch.
I hate to say it, but more than a many female "indie" filmmakers do this.
The word 'indie' is officially just a silly, trendy word now.
There's independent and then there's 'indie' hipster movies that aren't vital or substantive at all.
The idea of a vampire film created in Iran with an Iranian, female director and in black and white just really triggered a lot of good will, like me.
The emperor has no clothes. This movie is not a sum of its parts nor has anything to say so, all of the true cineastes out there who tell others to go watch Twilight on blurary - man, you are following a naked emperor with no clothes.
"And why does some of these filmmakers who try too hard to be interesting always bring up David Lynch."
There can be a strange way that people generalize things at times.
Whenever I mention a Lynch film I like, people will usually respond with "oh then you'd like {fill-in-the-movie-blank} because it's a weird film too."
Which is nonsensical. But that's what's happened to me many times over the years.
Now from the filmmakers perspective, perhaps they generalize the same way in the sense that any film that is different from the mainstream (like most of Lynch's work) places them in the same category if they make a non-mainstream film.
Which may or may or may not be the case.
Just taking a stab at it.
The skateboard scene was pretty playful.
shareThe acting, the cinematography, the playfulness. Plus a new take on a vampire story.
I agree here, and it was surprising to see this in an "art film," which this definitely is. Great editing as well. share