Friday, June 28, 2024, 3:30 PM, Roxie •
U.S. premiere
not available in the Digital Screening Room streaming encore
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| We Forgot to Break Up |
There was a short called We Forgot to Break Up👏 in Frameline42 (2017), with a related storyline. However, there are significant differences, beginning with the cast and crew. The director, writers, and principal actors are all new. The only commonality I found was one of the producers, Nicole Hilliard-Forde. The other salient difference is that in the 2017 short, “Evie” (Evan before transition) was a member of the band, disappeared for a while, and then reappeared as Evan. In the 2024 feature film, Evan is Evan from the beginning.
Evan and his girlfriend Isis are the core of their high school punk rock band The New Normals, along with Coco, Angus, and Angus’s brother Lugh. They leave the tiny little town where they grew up, Lake Emmett, Ontario (at the north end of the Bruce Peninsula, the spike that juts northward from the mainland of southern Ontario, separating Lake Huron from Georgian Bay; about half a day’s drive north of Toronto) and head to the big city, where things really begin to take off, only to be derailed by a love triangle.
I liked the 2017 short, and I like the 2024 feature-film version, but the new one didn’t hold my interest as well as the previous. Still, it’s remarkable for having a trans protagonist but not being About The Trans Person. Highly recommended.
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