Amirpour‘s debut feature, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, is an amalgam of stylistic influences, including—but certainly not limited to—spaghetti westerns, '50s teenage movies, atmospheric horror films, and '80s Jim Jarmusch. For this reason, she is being called "the next Tarantino," but a more fitting comparison may be to another, younger auteur: Xavier Dolan, whose films share Amirpour's hip aesthetic and clear affection for beautiful scenes of slow motion set to pop songs.
Sam Tunningley
January 22, 2015