The official trailer for Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, a new transgressive fantasy by famed writer and filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour, was released just recently. A young woman with special abilities breaks out of a mental hospital and teams up with a con artist single mother in this upcoming thriller. Kate Hudson portrays the only parent, while the supporting cast includes Jun Jong Seo, Craig Robinson, Ed Skrein, and Evan Whitten.
The frantic trailer begins off by showcasing the voyeuristic cinematography of the film as the film’s protagonist bravely escapes from a mental institution. Our protagonist is lost on the streets of New Orleans until she meets Bonnie, a hustler and single mother.
As the story progresses, Mona Lisa explains that she evaded capture by utilising just her wits. A detective seems to be hot on the trail of Mona Lisa and Bonnie as they embark on a neon-lit excursion across the wild metropolis. In keeping with Amirpour’s other films, the debut trailer for Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon promises to be both hilarious and unsettling. It also has the potential to be touching. Since its international premiere at last year’s Venice International Picture Festival, where it received largely excellent reviews (the film now has a fresh rating of 69 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes), it has been widely released to audiences across the world.
The MPA gave the film an R rating due to extensive crude language, explicit sexual content, and brief yet disturbing violence. The forthcoming fantasy thriller is written and directed by Amirpour, and it is produced by John Lesher (who also produced Birdman), Dylan Weathered (who also produced The Rover), Adam Mirels (who also produced The Rover), and Robbie Mirels (who also produced The Rover). It has been called “the first Iranian vampire western” to characterise Amirpour’s first feature picture, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Vice’s Creative Director Eddy Moretti called Amirpour “the new Tarantino” after seeing the picture and it received widespread recognition.
In her second feature picture, The Bad Batch, Amirpour took up the Special Jury Award at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. Movie actors Jason Momoa and Suki Waterhouse star in the dystopian love drama The Bad Batch, which features cannibals. Please Give Me You, rumoured to feature Chlo Grace Moretz, and a female-led remake of Cliffhanger are two of Amirpour’s other planned projects. On September 30, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, a new film from Saban, will be released in cinemas, online, and on demand.