Most of its characters are suffering existential ennui, but Eve remains a source of tremendous positivity. Undeniably pretentious, it’s also a weirdly cheerful film beneath its put-on gloom. The film takes place in two decayed cities: Detroit, where the reclusive Adam ( Tom Hiddleston) makes dark music in a dismal apartment and Tangier, where Adam’s wife of centuries Eve ( Tilda Swinton), drags him for, if not some sunshine, then at least a change of air. ![]() Not that the film is scary, exactly – but it is about vampires, and bursts of startling violence occasionally punctuate the stoned and laconic comedy. Read Empire's review of A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.Īfter a western ( Dead Man), a couple of gangster films ( Ghost Dog, The Limits of Control) and a sort of rom-com ( Broken Flowers), Only Lovers Left Alive finally saw idiosyncratic indie legend Jim Jarmusch turn his attention to horror. It’s a strange film, and possibly an exercise in style over substance. Great soundtrack, too you can tell that Amirpour is also a DJ. It allows her to pass unnoticed while simultaneously throwing an iconic silhouette, and it hides, hilariously, a stolen skateboard: the means by which she glides eerily through the monochrome streets of the fictional Iranian "Bad City". The Girl’s chador, often thought of as a symbol of oppression in a culture that requires women to cover themselves, here becomes one of power. Iranian-American writer and director Ana Lily Amirpour expands her 2011 short of the same name, and keeps the central sly conceit of the title: we’re used to girls walking home alone at night in horror films being vulnerable, but here, that describes the threat. Generally speaking, you’d have to say there aren’t that many black-and-white, Farsi-language, nouvelle vague, punk vampire Western romances, but on the evidence of A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, there should probably be more. Twilight completely captures the intense longing and inherent relationship drama that makes beautiful young bloodsuckers such a ripe source of inspiration for YA stories – and, you have to admit it, that ‘Supermassive Black Hole’ baseball scene is pretty damn good. The blue-tinged aesthetic evokes rain-soaked Forks perfectly, the soundtrack is full of winners, and Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson’s two (admittedly occasionally awkward) lead performances were the foundation from which the actors have since built incredibly interesting, compelling filmographies. We reckon that Twilight deserves to claw its way into this list because of its cultural impact alone – but there’s more to it than that. ![]() Some of you may scorn and jest at seeing the first instalment of the supernatural franchise on a list such as this – but Catherine Hardwicke’s moody, melancholy adaptation of Stephanie Meyers’ novel is the best of the sparkly-skinned bunch.
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