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How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
2008 2h 8m R
Comedy
,
Drama
,
Romance
6.1
79%
44%
55%
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Three generations of women in a Mexican American family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer.
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Directed By
Georgina Riedel
Written By
Georgina Riedel
Studio
Maya Releasing
,
Loosely Based Pictures
,
Standing Room Only Cinema
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Cast of How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
America Ferrera
Blanca
Elizabeth Peña
Lolita
Lucy Gallardo
Dona Genoveva
Steven Bauer
Victor Reyes
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer Reviews
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Like Blanca and her friends, walking languidly down the street, then spontaneousy grabbing a shopping cart for a ride, Reidel plays with the rhythm of her enjoyably unhurried tale.
Los Angeles Times
Bob Baker
Another victory for a first-time, full-length feature filmmaker with a curious, inventive eye and an unsparing point of view.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Riedel reveals herself to be a novice filmmaker, especially in the pacing of most scenes.
Houston Chronicle
Joe Leydon
With equal measures of discretion and honesty, Riedel directly addresses the sensuality of all three women, achieving an almost startling sense of intimacy in scenes that range from mesmerizingly intense and gently comical.
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
Unlike so many of her peers who depend on music to do everything but deliver the dialogue, [director] Riedel isn't afraid of silence; early in the film there's a solid minute of noiselessness as the camera lovingly pans the town, establishing the story's
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The film is sensitively told and appealingly bittersweet, though the story at times meanders and loses its way.
Las Vegas Weekly
Josh Bell
A lovingly crafted portrait of a kind of life not often seen on the big screen.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
While there are rewards to sticking with this tempest-in-teapot saga of sexual awakening across three family generations of Mexican-American women, its pacing is leisurely to the brink of stasis.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Leisurely paced but lovely and touching.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Writer-director Georgina Garcia Riedel makes inventive use of the wide-screen format in this gentle, poetic 2005 comedy.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
Ms. Reidel also deserves credit for depicting the possibility of finding love at all ages, something that larger and more mainstream movies so often shy away from showing.
L.A. Weekly
Tim Grierson
Writer-director Georgina Garcia Riedel's feature debut is so good for so long that it breaks the heart to watch the film lose its way.
Oregonian
Stan Hall
Pena has a great role and delivers her best performance since Lone Star in 1996.
Giant Magazine
Ethan Alter
Although the story is overly familiar, Riedel's evocation of small-town life rings true.
Kaplan vs. Kaplan
Jeanne Kaplan
This is a movie with wonderful, strong performances from three very talented women.
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David Kaplan
It's a smart little film, although there are some odd cinematographic moments --- curious, at best. And at two hours plus, the movie runs at least 20 minutes too long.
Houston Community Newspapers
Gary Brown
If your taste is for movies off the beaten path, run out and see this one before it disappears.
NewsBlaze
Prairie Miller
A tenderly spun tale of female sexual desire traversing three generations of Latina women north of the border, the movie is crafted glowingly from a woman's point of view, and with supreme sensitivity, dignity, warmth, sadness and humor.
Boxoffice Magazine
Chad Greene
With the Garcia Girls, Riedel will take the right audiences someplace this summer.
Palo Alto Weekly
Susan Tavernetti
Stylistically, the film takes risks before veering into an odd sort of studied artiness.
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