Desi's (Desi del Valle, Some
Prefer Cake, Costa Brava, Unhung
Heroes, The Second Coming) got a problem. She's been dumped by her
girlfriend Adela (Rosa Medina) and is having a hard time getting back into the
dating scene. With her friends' help, we watch her search for a new love, going
through the pain of blind dates and mismatches. In particular, our nineteen
year old narrator JT (Yesenia Aguirre) is concerned about Desi's love life, and
she has a thing for her as well. JT is a skateboarder with the big dream of meeting
comedian Marga Gómez (Laughing Matters,
Out There, In the Life, The D Word,
Traveling Companion, Fabulous!). Marga
makes a brief appearance. The film is set in San Francisco amidst a Latina
lesbian community, and it moves easily between English and Spanish. Writer/director/producer
Mary Guzmán (After the Break, Mind If I Call You Sir) also
drew the animations interspersed throughout the production. Unfortunately,
this is one of those lesbian films without professional acting. Its intentions
are good, especially as we see underrepresented Latinas on film, but many scenes
seem forced, and it drags on at just over an hour long.
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