Moving Pictures

If you ask Timothée Chalamet how he spent his summer vacation, he might mention going to Cannes but he has the Reds hat to prove he was in Cincinnati. He is one of the many acclaimed actors and filmmakers who have been in the region since late Spring.

Production recently wrapped on Monica, the latest feature film to shot on location in Greater Cincinnati.

Directed by Andrea Pallaoro, Monica, stars Emily Browning (American Gods), Oscar-nominee Patricia Clarkson (Sharp Objects), Oscar-nominee Adrianna Barraza (Babel) and Trace Lysette (Hustlers) as the title character. Pallaoro is co-writer along with Orlando Tirado, and Christina Dow, Eleonora Granata-Jenkinson, Pallaoro and Gina Resnick are producers.

Crews were filming in several neighborhoods in the area, including East Walnut Hills, Hyde Park, Carthage and Newtown, among other locations.

Oscar-nominee Timothée Chalamet, at Cannes, filmed Bones and All in Cincinati this summer.

Director Luca Guadagnino has won world-wide critical acclaim for films like Call Me by Your Name and Suspiria.

Mark Rylance has won multiple BAFTAs, and is a Tony and Oscar winning actor.

Michael Stuhlbarg is an Emmy and Tony-nominated actor.

Patricia Clarkson, an Oscar nominee and an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress, co-stars in Bones and All.

Adriana Barraza is one of the stars of Monica, who received an Oscar nomination for Babel.

“On the heels of Rebel Rebel and Bones and All in Cincinnati this summer, Film Cincinnati is happy to welcome the cast and crew of ‘Monica’ to the area,” said Kristen Schlotman, executive director of Film Cincinnati. “Our office has been busy the last few months keeping in contact with production crews like this one so we would be ready to shoot in Cincinnati as soon as it was safe.”

Monica is the intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the story explores universal themes of abandonment, aging, acceptance, and redemption.

Executive producers are Andrei Epifanov, Steve Stanulis, David Schwarz, Julien Bourgon, Dru Davis, Christina Sibul (Thirteen) and BAFTA-winning producer Karen Tenkhoff (The Motorcycle Diaries).

Bones and All, starring Chalamet and Taylor Russel, was directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name.) The film also stars Mark Rylance, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gorden-Green, and Francesca Scorsese.

Rebel Rebel, which shot here in May, stars Gareth Koorzen and features Drew Harwood, Chris Taylor, Sidney Edwards and Katie Garland Noble. This is the first project between Harwood and cinematographer Brandan Haskell.