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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

Mystery · Fantasy · Thriller · 2022

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.

Movie details

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

“Do not look in her eyes.”

2022 Mystery · Fantasy · Thriller 1h 42m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.4 / 10

Community rating

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.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Ana Lily Amirpour

Written by

Ana Lily Amirpour

Jeon Jong-seo

Jeon Jong-seo

Mona Lisa Lee

Kate Hudson

Kate Hudson

Bonnie Belle

Ed Skrein

Ed Skrein

Fuzz

Evan Whitten

Evan Whitten

Charlie

Craig Robinson

Craig Robinson

Officer Harold

Lauren Bowles

Lauren Bowles

Nurse Shirley

Serene Lee

Serene Lee

Mrs Pong

Court is in session

Put Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.