di Jamie Windust
31 marzo 2024
The past year has seen LGBTQ+ stories sit firmly within the zeitgeist.
From All Of Us Strangers to Rustin, awards season was peppered with stories of queerness and identity that touched millions. But one film that, despite making history at Venice Film Festival, didn’t quite reach the heights that its performances deserved is Andrea Pallaoro’s Monica.
Starring Trace Lysette and Patricia Clarkson, Monica follows Lysette as the titular character and examines her return to her family home after news that her mother Eugenia, played by Clarkson, is gravely ill. As we find out early on in the film, Monica’s relationship with her mother has been non-existent since she was a teenager, after she was abandoned at a bus stop by Eugenia after coming out as trans.
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