A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night: Ana Lily Amirpour’s film is an unusual combination: it is a romance and a horror movie, in black and white, spoken in Farsi, with an Iranian rock-and-roll soundtrack. It tells the story of a girl who happens to be a vampire, and a young man, whose paths keep crisscrossing as they move around the empty town they live in. Cinematographer Lyle Vincent gives the images, particularly the scenes at night, a great, lustrous look, that accentuates the eeriness of the locale; editor Alex O’Flinn manages the pace well, building tension when needed and allowing the quiet, romantic moments to properly grow. Acting is quite good: Sheila Vand, as the titular girl, is slender but manages to appear quietly threatening; Arash Marandi is fine as the hardworking and somewhat lost young man; Dominic Rains, as a drug dealer, is sleazy and easily hated. The music selection is solid.