• Director(s)

    Andrea Pallaoro

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    08/12/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    113m

  • Cast

    Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Browning

Film

Monica

strong sex, sex references, language

After years of estrangement, a woman returns home to help care for her dying mother in this intimate US drama, which explores trans experience, sex work and familial relationships in a subtle but arresting way.…

After years of estrangement, a woman returns home to help care for her dying mother in this intimate US drama, which explores trans experience, sex work and familial relationships in a subtle but arresting way.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

language

sex

discrimination

sexual violence and sexual threat

theme

violence

threat and horror

drugs

  • Director(s)

    Andrea Pallaoro

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    08/12/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    113m

  • Cast

    Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Browning

One or more of the releases in this collection was cut.

strong sex, sex references, language
Classified Date:
06/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
606 Distribution
Cuts:
The distributor chose to make a cut to a reference to erotic asphyxiation in order to achieve a 15 rating. Cuts were made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy. An uncut 18 rating was available.
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('screw', 'bastard' and 'God').
sex
There are scenes of strong sex, including nudity, some of which occur in the context of a woman performing as a cam girl, in which she masturbates herself and begins to undress for a client online.
discrimination
A trans woman grapples with the memory of her mother rejecting her new sex identity. This memory is only ever recalled verbally. There are also references to the fetishising of her body when the woman, who is a sex worker, talks to a potential client over the phone.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man harrasses a woman while she sits in her car, referring to her as a 'hot girl' and loitering around her car as she tries to reverse out of a parking position.
theme
Emotional scenes involve a family caring for their ailing mother, who is suffering from a brain tumour. We sometimes see the woman in tears from the pain, or in a state of confusion about her surroundings. Family members also deal with years of being estranged from one another.
Classified Date:
06/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
606 Distribution

  • Classified date

    06/11/2023

  • Language

    English