My First Published Article!
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mastery of Blending Style by Madeline Saintsing - Published in the inaugural issue of Film Club 3000
“What do you get when you take the style of Sergio Leone, the classic vampire lore of Nosferatu, add a contemporary feminist twist, and translate it all into Farsi? Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a masterclass in blending genres to create an entirely original work. The Iranian-American director’s debut feature film premiered at Sundance back in 2014 and has since garnered an impressive following. Released to positive critical response, many consider Girl one of the best recent additions to the Vampire Horror genre. Borrowing from Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s, the German Expressionist movement, and Iranian New Wave Cinema, Amirpour took these familiar languages and gave them new meaning through their amalgamation.”
All my love,
Madeline