Director: Andrea Pallaoro
2023, 110min., R
Screenwriter: Andrea Pallaoro, Orlando Tirado
Cast: Emily Browning Patricia Clarkson Trace Lysette Adriana Barraza Joshua Close Jean Zarzour Brittany Picard Bobby Easley
Monica is an intimate portrait of a woman who, for the first time in 20 years, returns home to the Midwest to take care of her ailing mother. Through the themes of abandonment, aging, rejection, acceptance and forgiveness, we get to know Monica and her world made of pain, fear but also courage. A journey through the needs and desires of a woman who opens a cognitive look at the human condition.