Ana Lily Amirpour doesn’t want you to call her movies “female-led.” It’s true that all of them to date have been centered around strong female protagonists, including her Venice competition t…
as “full of indie ‘tude, but stylishly well-executed,” is centered on a North Korean asylum seeker named Mona Lisa who has spent the last 12 years in a catatonic state at a New Orleans mental institution, only to suddenly wake up.
Amirpour finished the script in 2018 and the movie was shot in 2019. “We were hoping to be here last summer, and then, of course, that’s not how it went down,” says Amirpour. “But you just surrender, you have no choice.” “She’s an astonishing, beautiful, powerful, quiet, wise soul,” says Amirpour. “It was a joy to have this relationship with someone. It feels like a flotation device in the water, it lifts you up. I just loved it and I completely trusted her and her instincts.”
“I just see her as a cool, weird, powerful young girl who is out for adventure and hungry for life and curious and doesn’t have the limits of fear an average girl has. Because of that, she can really go towards anything that interests her because she’s always in control,” says Amirpour. “I hope she can become a new hero for people who are bored with the heroes they’re seeing.”
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