mONICA
Genre: melò ✦✦✦
Director: Andrea Pallaoro. With Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Browning
Italian who nourished his gaze between New York and Los Angeles and set his first film in rural America, MedeasPallaoro, with this female portrait, delivers us a cooled and silent melò, the simple and universal tale of a return home.
Monica’s trip to visit her sick mother (Patricia Clarkson, great) and seeing the place where she grew up under another name, and as a boy, is painful.
The elapsed time does not allow the mother to recognize that son abandoned years before, but allows the author to embrace with a single gesture, the right one, a caress, past and present.
LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ excellent
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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