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Mona Lisa

Neil Jordan · 1986 CE · Film · English · Contemporary

A small-time London driver fresh out of prison is hired to chauffeur an elegant call girl between hotel clients, and at her asking goes searching the city's vice underworld for a lost young woman. Bob Hoskins's performance won at Cannes, and Jordan's bruised romanticism set the tone for the modern British noir.

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Attributes

Genre
Crime / NoirRomance
Theme
LoveIsolation & AlienationAppearance vs Reality
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
EverymanAnti-HeroFemme Fatale
Plot structure
The QuestIronic Reversal
Symbol / motif
The CityLight & Dark
Conflict
vs Personvs Selfvs Society
Mode / tone
NoirRomantic
Culture / tradition
English

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