How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

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.

Another victory for a first-time, full-length feature filmmaker with a curious, inventive eye and an unsparing point of view.

Riedel reveals herself to be a novice filmmaker, especially in the pacing of most scenes.

Stylistically, the film takes risks before veering into an odd sort of studied artiness.