Something You Said Last Night (2022)

Something You Said Last Night (2022). 1h 36m

“Four members of an Italian-Canadian family go on a one-week vacation at a resort. There is genial father Guido, overbearing organizer mother Mona, morose aspiring writer older daughter Ren, and accounting student younger daughter Sienna. Appearing by phone are son Anthony, and grandma Nonna.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe sisters sometimes laugh and sometimes bicker. Sienna meets a staff person, and hangs around various party boys, which Ren is more circumspect, and usually goes off alone, once needing the help of a nude sunbather to return.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRen seems a bit odd, and is the family member Mona mostly worries about. If I wasnu0026#39;t seeing this at the Inside Out 2SLGBT+ film festival, it could go over my head that she is transgender, since this is a subtle portrait of a post-op trans person, without all the drama of someone in a stage of transitioning. Still, it mostly seemed to be just another story of the dynamics of a family on vacation.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn the Q+A, much was made of the film being made with the help of a fund that supports inclusion and mentorship of trans people, so a fair number of the crew was trans.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe version I saw had open captioning, but where the characters spoke in Italian, that was put on screen verbatim, not translated. While sometimes I could get the gist of what was being said by the context, it was an irritant.”