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- 2023
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 46 m
- 2023
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 46 m
Summary A woman returns home to care for her ailing mother who she hasn't seen in years in this tender portrait of family, forgiveness, and acceptance.
Directed By: Andrea Pallaoro
Written By: Orlando Tirado
- 2023
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 46 m
- 2023
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 46 m
Monica
75
User Score
Mixed or Average
6.0
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Summary A woman returns home to care for her ailing mother who she hasn't seen in years in this tender portrait of family, forgiveness, and acceptance.
Directed By: Andrea Pallaoro
Written By: Orlando Tirado
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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87% Positive
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7% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
75
87% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
7% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
A quiet, heartfelt, and beautifully nuanced drama that feels unique and universal, featuring what will surely go down as one of the best performances of 2023.
Spare but poignant, "Monica" is a pensive family drama that’s loaded with the empty space of things left unsaid.
What is particularly powerful is that the film does not feel the need to overexplain Monica. The film offers glimpses into her life, her relationships and her livelihood, but Monica doesn’t have to spell out the details of her past or justify her present to anyone.
Monica is an unsentimental exploration of its main character’s search for personal fulfillment through human connection.
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.
Monica is moody, slow-moving and stronger on style than characterization, yet Lysette and Clarkson endow it with feeling. This is a broken-family drama that culminates not with shouted recriminations or smashed crockery, but with baths, massages and gentle kisses.
A sluggish exercise in formalism ... [Monica] feels like a movie perpetually struggling to connect.
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6.0
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6.0
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Production Company
Varient,
Solo Five Productions,
Melograno Films,
Propaganda Italia,
Fenix Entertainment,
Rai Cinema,
Alacran Pictures,
039 Albedo,
The Exchange,
Cinetrain,
Hudson Entertainment Group
Release Date May 12, 2023
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating R
Genres
Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Chicago International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 2 Nominations
