Watched: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014).
I’ll admit that I was fooled into thinking that this was actually filmed in Iran (it wasn’t - retrospectively, I have no idea how a film like this could be made there), and that illusion certainly helps; the world of Bad City is one that feels at once foreign and familiar, where drugs are everywhere, the streets are empty, and a vampire is roaming around picking off some of the more unsavory elements of society. Parts of this almost felt like a Western - there’s a cautious romance to the whole thing that is initially hard to buy into, but by the end you’re desperately hoping that the two leads can make something good out of their (so far bleak) lives. Gripping, surreal, fascinating stuff.