Ana Lily Amirpour

A vampire lives in a seedy Iranian town.

I don't really understand everything, but there are enough great scenes to make up for that. I was promised an Iranian-vampire-spaghetti-western, and I was not disappointed.

Concept: A
Story: C
Characters: C
Dialog: C
Pacing: B
Cinematography: A
Special effects/design: A
Acting: B
Music: A

Enjoyment: A

GPA: 3.2/4

Graphic Novel Book Club October 2015:

I'm going to rate both #1 and #2 together on this one. I love the first issue so much more than the second. I understand the second was our flashback of how we got to issues one, without any words pointing to that specifically, but I was more engrossed in the focus of that one. I do love the stark black and white, and how unlike Terry Moore's using black lines to pull you in from a world of white page, this is black pages where the sets and people and show more narrator is chiseled out with the rare whites.

I'll be interested definitely to see what the group thinks about this one, but most of my judgement is being reserved for reading the rest of the first volume whenever it gets released to have a more fully formed opinion about it. show less

Graphic Novel Book Club October 2015:

I'm going to rate both #1 and #2 together on this one. I love the first issue so much more than the second. I understand the second was our flashback of how we got to issues one, without any words pointing to that specifically, but I was more engrossed in the focus of that one. I do love the stark black and white, and how unlike Terry Moore's using black lines to pull you in from a world of white page, this is black pages where the sets and people and show more narrator is chiseled out with the rare whites.

I'll be interested definitely to see what the group thinks about this one, but most of my judgement is being reserved for reading the rest of the first volume whenever it gets released to have a more fully formed opinion about it. show less