Video: How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

Apple Trailers — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:53:06 -0500

What does female desire look like? And how do self-inflicted limitations and social expectations shade and color it? In her tenderly comic, richly textured feature debut, Georgina Garcia Riedel lovingly explores the terrain of longing, loneliness, and self-realization among three generations of single women in a Mexican American family as they grapple with romantic drought. As sweltering summer stretches over a sun-bleached Arizona border town, Do a Genoveva (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 Don Pedro s pedagogical skills, sparks begin to fly at her house and beyond. Her daughter, Lolita, played with deadpan poignancy by Elizabeth Pe a, seems to have hit a dry spell until things start to sizzle at the butcher shop where she works. Meanwhile, Lolita s teenage daughter, Blanca, a radiant America Ferrera (REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES), engineers an awakening all her own. It s as if the langu

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Video: How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer