“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart”, wrote English author C. S. Lewis. These words resonate with Andrea Pallaoro’s striking third feature, Monica (2022). Trans actor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the course of three quietly devastating features, Italian-born, America-based art-house director Andrea Pallaoro ("Medeas," ...

Andrea Pallaoro’s Monica, which made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, is the moving story between an older child and estranged dying mother, played respectively by trans actress Trace ...

Italian director Andrea Pallaoro is back on the Lido with English-language drama “Monica,” starring transgender actor Trace Lysette (“Transparent”) as a woman who returns home to the Midwest to care ...

Patricia Clarkson and Trace Lysette play an estranged mother and daughter who manage to avoid saying the obvious in this understated amends-making drama. More than a decade has passed since Monica ...

Over the course of three quietly devastating features, Italian-born, America-based art-house director Andrea Pallaoro ("Medeas," "Hannah") has shown just how inadequate words can be when it comes to ...

After seeing Monica, the new film by Italian writer-director Andrea Pallaoro, I’m sure opinions will be divided. Shot in a narrow aspect ratio and composed almost entirely of static shots, Monica ...

In his latest, “ Monica,” Pallaoro takes on the near-universal craving for parent-child connection, knowing full well that his two lead characters — a Midwestern trans woman and the uncomprehending ...

Andrea Pallaoro’s Monica bursts out of the gate with a shot that announces its distinctive style: a protracted close-up of the eponymous character (Trace Lysette) in a tanning bed, throbbing music ...

Lysette plays a trans woman who returns home to care for her dying mother (Patricia Clarkson) in this Venice competition entry. By Jon Frosch Senior Editor, Reviews Monica, by comparison, feels like a ...

Monica (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Andrea Pallaoro, written by Orlando Tirado and Andrea Pallaoro and starring Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Browning, Adriana Barraza, Joshua ...