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.
The 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.
Ren seems a bit odd, and is the family member Mona mostly worries about. If I wasn'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.
In 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.
The 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.
