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Persian American filmmakerAna Lily Amirpournow has three feature - length films under her belt and each one offer up something unique and compelling for the audience . Amirpour is one of the deplorably fewfemale theatre director currently make for in Hollywood , but since her debut in 2016 withA Girl Walks Home Alone at Night , she has stay to gain realisation , make the motion-picture show she want to make with in - demand actors . Audiences and critics alike seem to appreciate her fashionable and sensory film that often require more than one viewing to really absorb .
Feature - length moving picture are n’t the only productions Amirpour has directed . She also has a substantial body of television , short plastic film , and medicine picture body of work . Amirpour has take eight poor films , music videos for Christina Aguilera and Tini and Juanita and the Rabbit , several episodes of celebrated TV shows , includingLegion , Castle Rock , The Twilight Zone , anda segment ofGuillermo del Toro ’s Cabinet of Curiosities . Amirpour has a captivation with the macabre and the weird , and her feature of speech films countenance her to search those themes in a longer data formatting that her telly projects do n’t allow .
Cabinet of Curiosities : The Outside features a blooming and mysterious ending for Stacey and the Alo Glo troubles plaguing her plate and work living .
3Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon (2021)
A Stylish And Creative Fantasy That Ends Too Soon
InMona Lisa and the Blood Moon , a adult female with telekinetic powers , Mona Lisa Lee ( Jeon Jong - seo ) , escapes from a psychiatric hospital and thread the street of New Orleans . She runs into an alien dancer named Bonnie Belle ( Kate Hudson ) who is the only person to treat her with kindness . Thinking she may have found a family , Mona Lisa apace realizes Bonnie is exploit her for her major power , using her to soak the great unwashed and standard atmosphere .
The film has a 74 % onRotten Tomatoesand features the stylish and lurid plotting and type of type that Amirpour has previously been successful with . Jeon in especial , is big as a woman unsure of her mogul , and the actor dally her hopefulness , desperation , and cold disengagement well . Mona Lisa and the lineage Moondoes terminate too quickly , however , and feel a bit more like one of Amirpour ’s horror TV episode in condition of narrative heft .
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2The Bad Batch (2016)
An Ensemble Cast Including Jim Carrey & Keanu Reeves Elevates The Plot
WhileThe Bad Batchmay only have a 45 % onRotten Tomatoes , its trippy , psychedelic westerly setting ; unique , dystopian , dreamlike feel ; and all - lead cast include Jim Carrey , Keanu Reeves , Suki Waterhouse , andJason Momoa in one of his best performances , make it a majuscule effort than the sum of its parts .
In the film , Arlen ( Waterhouse ) is exiled to Texas in the post - apocalyptic near future where she is attacked by a group of cannibal lead by Miami Man ( Momoa ) , only to get away and obtain refuge in a unknown village led by The Dream ( Reeves ) .
Though the plot does feel too stretch out , an example of Amirpour ’s continue government issue with tempo , the visuals , fiber , and stylistic choice are so unique that they make getting through the slower parts of the film much less of a slog . Amirpour creates a festival of different visual stylesbetween the dusty villages of the desert and the rave - like Comfort metropolis where Arlen finds reprieve .
1A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)
A Stylistic Iranian Vampire Tale
A Girl walk Home Alone at Nightis Amirpour ’s characteristic film debut and with a 96 % onRotten Tomatoes , it ’s her most critically acclaimed yet . A Iranian - language Persian vampire Western , the pic is set in a town known only as Bad City . There , a young man key out Arash ( Arash Marandi ) attempts to endure the endangerment of poverty when he run into " The Girl " ( Sheila Vand ) , who unbeknown to him , is a vampire who preys on the evil human beings of Bad City .
sprout in black - and - white , A Girl walk Home Alone at Nightis an incredibly bold undertaking that serve as a homage to vampire movies , Westerns , and Amirpour ’s parents ' home commonwealth of Iran .
It ’s unlike many directors ' first outings and occupy big stylistic cut that Amirpour would end up polishing in her next films . Ana Lily Amirpourmade her debut on a shoestring budget of $ 56 , 000 ( viaByrd Theatre ) , and yet she manages to create a whole fleshed - out world that feels more or less familiar until the witness looks hard to see how alien it unfeignedly is .
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