![]() ![]() American politics and conservative social movements have been pushing for this ostracizing, desperate to see trans folks alienated from their support systems. She learns that her mother, Eugenia ( Patricia Clarkson), is dying, and Monica has a chance to do something she never thought she would: Let the universe dictate her choices.Ī tender examination of the isolation that often comes with the trans experience, Pallaoro’s film arrives as if it descended from the cosmos, just when we need it most. For Monica, a trans woman who has spent about 20 years away from her family, living life on her own terms, this austerity is cracked with one simple phone call. The world turns, despite us, and events happen that are entirely out of our hands, no matter how much time we spend trying to anticipate them. She wrestles with these things silently, often with her face half-obscured, leaving the viewer to closely study the intense pattern of emotions that come with every small decision she makes.Īnyone who has ever tried to maintain a similar level of governance over their own life knows that control is a fleeting resource. ![]() Monica, who is played with quiet grace by Trace Lysette, likes to control the things that she can: her tan her playlist her every word in a voicemail. The film, which opens in theaters May 12, finds its titular character in constant conversation with the things she can manage. ![]() The idea of control is draped across Italian director Andrea Pallaoro’s Monica like a heavy, warm blanket-one that can be suffocating, if you let it weigh on you for too long. ![]()
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