A phenomenal piece, with eclectic style of vision, sound, and mood. This movie offers novelties with a lasting impression on the viewer. It's hard to imagine any authentic criticisms against this movie, only critics enviously bittered by the emergence of such a brilliant work.

I love this film. Mark forgot to mention that it has the best acting by a cat of all time. That final scene....

I as glad to hear Mark credit the sound design, which was striking and reminiscent of American Graffiti.

I'm glad Mark liked it, I saw it last week and loved it. Might be my favourite film of 2015 so far.

I'm not a film critic, and although there are some posts on here from people who either are or wish they were, I just know whether or not a film keeps me watching. I couldn't take my eyes off this one. It has a mesmerizing quality, at least for me.

I'm glad he mentioned Persepolis because that's all I could think about when I watched this

So good! Absolutely loved it

Woo -- So glad he enjoyed it. I loved this thing.

Thanks folks. Fantastic review.

I watched this film on silent for the first time as I had to proctor some tests while teaching. Then watched it again with the sound. Loved it even more the second time.

I think if a film get's compared to a Leone western and Eraserhead you can guarantee I'll be seeing it. Sounds very compelling, I'll be seeing it tomorrow on this recommendation!

And the Oscar for best supporting actor in a feline roll goes to Masuka as the cat.

It's a very "cool" movie and I don't hate it, but like someone else said there is no plot or character arcs. So essentially nothing happens. That might drive American movie goers crazy but I commend the creators for trying something different.

As this just come out in theatres in the UK? The DVD is out in the US.

I loved this film. It's fixed in my memory.

I couldnt believe how much i loved this movie

I loved it. Instant favourite.

Whoa! She looks scary from that still. I'll put it on my to-see list.

Loved this film!!!!!!

Sounds interesting! I hope it gets the distribution it deserves.

How about that ravine full of bodies lying out in the open? I haven't seen that since I saw Night and Fog in high school.

Hollywood needs to learn something....

Visually was good

I personally don’t see any similarities of a western, having a few scenes with a western score don’t make it one. And this movie as is much an Iranian movie, as Snowpiercer is a Korean movie, having an amerian-iranian director with choppy dialogue of Farsi doesn’t make this an Iranian movie. Btw this movie was produced by Vice, that should be a warning in it self

This movie sounds interesting. I might check it out.

Saw it the other night, it feels a bit like a short film that's been dragged out. Not a bad film, but a lot of style over content. Very californian hipster type thing. Basically a love story. I've seen worse.

I've just seen this. Liked it a lot; cool soundtrack with a very weird vibe that constantly wrong-foots you. Made me feel a little sorry for Ryan Gosling though; this is how you do it Ryan lol. This is how you turn your genre fetishes into something entirely your own. Really did remind me of Jim Jarmusch throughout [the guitar sounds had an almost Dead Man feel to it], also reminded me of David Lynch; the principle male character made me think of James [I think that's his name] in Twin Peaks. All in all good - stylish and pulpy in all the right ways :)

HELLO SELINA!!

Halloween

The film’s black & white visuals are unforgettable & stylish as the film’s well acted, well crafted, stylish & original as the film’s comparable to Let The Right One In (2008) & the film’s one of the best subtitled horror films ever made. (95%) (5/5 stars) (positive)

Kermode review was good, except he neglected to compliment the production´s feline thespian facilitator of the third act. If you´ve seen the movie, you know what I mean.

If I watch this film and i don't find it that good I might stop watching film reviews. because the review doesn't really mean anything if your not like the reviewer.

It's a 30 minute student film project stretched out over feature length, that does nothing but hit hipster marks (vintage vinyl, twenty-somethings with skateboards, a guy who looks like that guy from "Die Antwoord", etc) and has as much to do with Iranian film-making as Turkish Star Wars. Ponderous, flatly acted, painfully derivative (it doesn't just lift shots from "Nadja", "Eraserhead" and "Near Dark", it repeats the same ripped off shot about a dozen times apiece) and has about the same semiotic depth as a bad graphic novel. However, the acting from the cat is excellent. You should worry when a cat is the best actor in your film.

Simon Mayo is unbearable

he is just dropping genres and movie references. where the is actual review.

So what you're saying is that if the film is overstuffed with references to other well known and much better movies then this film is obviously great? I found "A Girl...." dry, unimaginative and painfully pretentious. A movie in search of a story line. A movie that is cool to like...But it's all so subjective isn't it.

Ooooh a James Dean look a like dressed as Dracula meets a real vampire on a skateboard.. Lets plays a indie hit waaay to loud... And then cut to a ballong dancing in the wind. This movie drove me mad.

Sounds like a pretentious bait-and-switch. "Hey look at this daring Iranian film!!!", but it turns out to just be an American film with Iranian dialogue.

i made it 30 mins in and gave up, looked good but wasnt enjoying it at all

urgh Kermode is so irritating.

Terrible film. Cherry-picking from vague influences, with absolutely no depth and was cringing throughout. Just because it's in black and white, or the dialogue is in Farsi, doesn't mean it's 'interesting'. It isn't a Western, or a horror, and definitely not a great example of feminist cinema. It's most certainly all style and no substance - I am befuddled by the good reviews!