2022 · mystery · fantasy · thriller
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour1h 42m2022
A young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
Our read: Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive mystery · fantasy · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, steady, measured mystery / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- inventive
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