A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a cleverly misleading title. It conjures images of a child in danger, targeted by kidnappers, perverts, or other nocturnal predators. The Girl in question, played by Sheila Vand, appears with a long black chador and a chic striped matelot shirt, giving her a dark hipster vibe. A mousy figure who looks to be in her late twenties, she glides down the street with an almost supernatural quality, her garment trailing behind like a cape. She seems to float, not because she can hover off the ground, but because she rides on a young boy’s skateboard. She had stopped the boy in the street to ask if he was a good boy several times just to make sure he was sincere. He’d better be. The Girl is a vampire. Lowering her voice to a demonic timbre, she had warned the kid, “I can take your eyes out of your skull and give them to the dogs to eat.” Terrified, the boy ran off, leaving his skateboard. Now she coasts down the street on wheels until she sees Arash (Arash Marandi), a James Dean wannabe spaced on ecstasy and dressed like Dracula for a Halloween party. They were made for each other.

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