How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

Boredom. Absolute boredom. There’s not much to do in the shithole town of Somerton. It consists of no more than a street and a few shops and is also the town of the Garcias; teenage-girl Garcia, her mother, and grandma Garcia – the repressed matriarch. Due to the monotony of everyday life, they are all on the verge of a nervous breakdown and they can only be saved with love. Probably not so much love as sexual lust, or in the case of the Garcias, sexual drought: – What to do when you need someone to fulfill your needs, and there is no one to be found. They are already married to someone else or their reputation leaves much to be wished for. What would other people say? The prevailing Catholicism does not make things any easier.This is not the usual Latino-American rom-com, with its depiction of weddings, and loud crazy family members. Garcia Riedel’s film does not shun lengthy shots and silences. The use of dialogue and music is minimal. To give the film a more realistic feel the director makes use of documentary inserts. The represented world-weariness in the film bears a resemblance to the boredom shown in the films of Larry Clark: If there’s nothing else to do you can always screw somebody!TORA BERG

Premiärstatus
Nordisk premiär: Medverkande
Elisabeth Pena, America Ferrara, Lucy Gallardo: Producent
Georgina Garcia Riendel & Olga Arana: Manus
Georgina Garcia Riedel: Foto
Tobias Datum: Musik
Alina Gandini: Talat språk
English