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Synopsis
How the Garcia Girls
Spent Their Summer
What does female desire look like? And how do self-inflicted limitations andsocial expectations shade and color it? In her tenderly comic, richly texturedfeature debut, Georgina Garcia Riedel lovingly explores the terrain of longing,loneliness, and self-realization among three generations of single women in aMexican American family as they grapple with romantic drought.
As sweltering summer stretches over a sun-bleached Arizona border town, DoņaGenoveva (Lucy Gallardo), the Garcia family matriarch, decides to buy a car.The only catch is that she doesn't know how to drive. When she enlists DonPedro's pedagogical skills, sparks begin to fly--at her house and beyond. Herdaughter, Lolita, played with deadpan poignancy by Elizabeth Peņa, seems tohave hit a dry spell until things start to sizzle at the butcher shop where sheworks. Meanwhile, Lolita's teenage daughter, Blanca, a radiant America Ferrera(REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES), engineers an awakening all her own. It's as ifthe languid heat wave has thawed everyone's defenses and jump-started asexual revolution.
Like the folks in the story, Riedel's camera never hurries, savoring the poeticvistas and lazy rhythms of the rural Southwest without resorting to sentimentality.Her three heroines are utterly human--full of idiosyncrasies and unexpectedcharms. In each of them is a distinctive, newly discovered sensuality, an enginethat drives them forward, kicking up dust as they go.
(Caroline Libresco, 2005 Sundance Film Festival Catalogue)
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Writer/Director: Georgina Garcia Riedel
Producers: Georgina Garcia Riedel, Olga Arana
Principal Cast: Elizabeth Peņa, America Ferrera, Lucy Gallardo, Jorge
Cevera, Jr., Steven Bauer, Rick Najera
Running Time: 128 minutes
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