Mona Lisa
1986, 104 minutes, Rated M
Mona Lisa, sensual street-gritty breathing life into its relationships in the way of Bogart and Becall.
1986, London, where the pace is electrifying and the dialogue crackles through the fashionable clubs and chic hotels on to the back streets of vice the sizzle in the garish glow of neon.
George (Bob Hoskins), is a tough ex-con, fresh out of prison and back on the streets. He meets with a hooker, Simone (Cathy Tyson) searching for a lost friend by way of Mortell (Michael Caine) and finds himself on a roller coaster ride that plummets and peaks from hapless romance to violent encounters.
The face on Mona Lisa is an enigma, and as in art, life too is never quite what it seems. For George the climax is shattering.
Ex-con George, expecting to be repaid after taking a fall for his crime boss, is reduced to driving classy call girl Simone to her jobs at London's finer hotels. Despite their differences (he's a poorly-educated, unattractive, and unsophisticated bigot; she's a beautiful, elegant, and intelligent black woman), George falls in love with her and agrees to help locate one of her old friends, a junkie still working the streets for a dangerously violent pimp.- Director:
- Neil Jordan [14],
- Starring:
- Bob Hoskins [45], Robbie Coltrane [50], Cathy Tyson [3], Clarke Peters [1], Zoe Nathenson [3], Kate Hardie [1], Sammi Davis [1], Michael Caine [64],
- Screen Formats:
- Full Frame 1.33:1
- Language and Sound:
- English Dolby Digital Stereo
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