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The chief virtue of “Monica” is its restraint and its patience.
Monica
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United States, Italy · 2022
1h 53m
Director Andrea Pallaoro
Starring Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Browning, Joshua Close
Genre Drama
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When an estranged transgender woman journeys home to visit her dying mother, she reconnects to her past and ultimately to herself.
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Screen Daily by Fionnuala Halligan
A quietly thoughtful and impressively acted drama.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Jon Frosch
A sluggish exercise in formalism ... [Monica] feels like a movie perpetually struggling to connect.
83
Spare but poignant, "Monica" is a pensive family drama that’s loaded with the empty space of things left unsaid.
75
The Playlist by Marshall Shaffer
At its best, Pallaoro’s quiet film wields the paradoxical power of cinema to create pure illusion.
70
Conceived with uncommon sensitivity toward the interior lives of its characters, as well as to the shifting codes of trans representation, “Monica” is a film about making amends.
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