Death and Heartbeats

I had a magical night under the stars last evening. Me and a friend of mine went to see this Iranian, film noir vampire movie, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, at an outdoor cinema. This movie was absolutely fantastic! Apart from being eye-candy, thrilling, romantic, bloody and funny, it also had an amasing soundtrack. The soundtrack made the movie feel like a mix of a modern neo western and some kind of independent movie like Lost in Translation.

Some noteble tracks were Gelaye by Iranian, alternative rock band Radio Tehran, Dancing Girls by Farah, and the neo western song Black Sunday by Federale. But of course I'm saving the best for last. There was this highly romtantic scene between the main characters where the girl puts on a vinyl record on the record player, and the song playing is Death by White Lies. This scene is totally mesmerising. I couldn't imagine a better band than the Joy Divisionesque band White Lies to portrait the electrical and unnerving feel of this scene. Seeing the scene out of context will probably never be as good as seeing it in the movie, but here it is anyway.

Would you like to listen to some music? From A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) from Cinematic Poetry on Vimeo.