The electrifying fairy-tale adventure stars Jeon Jong-seo ('Burning') as a young woman trying to find herself after escaping from an asylum.
does, but director Ana Lily Amirpour isn’t one to let convention get in her way. This trippy Venice competition title opens with a moody shot of a sinister bayou in Louisiana. Spanish moss hangs from oak and cypress trees. Clouds slither across the sky, occasionally crossing paths with the full moon.
The uninviting marsh water is dark and still. Miles away, a young woman named Mona sits in an asylum, wrapped in a white straitjacket and rocking back and forth in her cell. When her night attendant visits her chambers to clip her toenails, the routine exchange ends with the attendant stabbing herself in the thigh with the nail clippers, and Mona making a run for it.
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