Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Jun Jong-seoMona Lisa Lee
- Kate HudsonBonnie Belle
- Ed SkreinFuzz
- Evan WhittenCharlie
- Craig RobinsonOfficer Harold
- Lauren BowlesNurse Shirley
- Serene LeeMrs Pong
- Cory RobertsSnacky
- Kyler PorcheRick
- Michael CarolloRandy
Recommendations
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The Playlist
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon is a blast. - 80
Time Out
Amirpour’s career to date offers a triptych of stories of women navigating men’s worlds, and needing all their nous and resources to survive in them – and this is her most straight-up enjoyable survivor tale yet. It’s a feminist parable that may not linger as long as in the mind as her more provocative debut, but it’s irresistible fun in the moment. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon solidifies Amirpour’s reputation as a master of subversion. - 80
Variety
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon is a lark, a contradiction — a lurid, violent, caught-in-the-gutter movie that’s also a nimble and knowing tall tale for adults. - 75
The Film Stage
This is a midnight movie/B-movie-type work that knows exactly what it is––there’s no pretensions of “elevated horror” here. Mona Lisa is smart, politically aware, and reaffirms a bit of faith in Amirpour’s talent. - 70
TheWrap
Amirpour takes on the Big Easy, mixing a heady cocktail of EDM beats, Hollywood treacle and southern sleaze and sipping down Bourbon Street. - 60
The Guardian
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon offers street-food for the senses, served with lashings of hot sauce. It’s hardly nutritious but it tastes fine in the moment, wolfed down on the run. - 60
The Telegraph
The film is ultimately little more than a trifle, but Hudson is the cherry topping: as this messy, crafty, grasping nightmare, the actress is more fun than she’s been in years.
