{"id":327,"date":"2010-12-03T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T21:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=327"},"modified":"2011-06-06T18:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T23:01:53","slug":"girl-seeks-girl-chica-busca-chica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/girl-seeks-girl-chica-busca-chica\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Seeks Girl (Chica Busca Chica)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Find this DVD in a library near you.\" href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/461033982\">Girl Seeks Girl (Chica Busca Chica). Dir. Sonia Sebasti\u00e1n. With: Almudena Gallego, et al. Spanish with English subtitles. Wolfe Video, 2007. DVD. 153 min. $19.95.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-370\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"Girl Seeks Girl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Chica-Busca-Chica1-e1291657217865.jpg\" alt=\"Cover art for Girl Seeks Girl\" width=\"200\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Girl Seeks Girl (Chica Busca Chica)<\/em> has been billed as Spain\u2018s &#8220;L Word.&#8221; The women are young and beautiful; they live a wild and exciting life; and they fit the common lesbian stereotypes: &#8220;the cheater&#8221; \u2015 Nines, &#8220;the crazy one&#8221; \u2015 Monica, &#8220;the newbie&#8221; \u2015 Ana, and the &#8220;straight girl that dykes fall for&#8221; \u2015 Carmen.<\/p>\n<p>The scenes take place at the local lesbian bar, where Nines is a flirtatious bartender with tricks (or should I say stray eye-lashes) up her sleeve, and at Monica\u2018s apartment, where Carmen is moving out and innocent Ana is moving in. Drama ensues when Nines sleeps with Monica, despite being spellbound by Carmen.<\/p>\n<p>This film\u2018s format is similar to a series of soap opera episodes, and its producers seem to be trying to ride Ilene Chaiken\u2018s coattails by marketing this as a comparison to <em>The L Word.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wanted to like a movie but just couldn&#8217;t get behind it? This reviewer loves movies with subtitles, but despite the beautiful actors, the storyline is a bit too simple and there is not enough character development. Perhaps this reviewer is showing her age when beauty and anything lesbian is no longer the only thing she seeks in watching great lesbian films.<\/p>\n<p>This film is recommended for libraries that have a large video collection for entertainment and would like to include light GLBT videos.<\/p>\n<p><em>Girl Seeks Girl (Chica Busca Chica)<\/em> is available for purchase from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfevideo.com\/products\/girl-seeks-girl-chica-busca-chica\/\">Wolfe Video<\/a>, but can also be viewed online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veoh.com\/search\/videos\/q\/chica+busca+chica#http%3A%2F%2Fwww.veoh.com%2Fgroup%2Fchica%3Fajax%3Dtrue\">Veoh.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by, <strong>Lisa Forslund<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girl Seeks Girl (Chica Busca Chica). Dir. Sonia Sebasti\u00e1n. With: Almudena Gallego, et al. Spanish with English subtitles. Wolfe Video, 2007. DVD. 153 min. $19.95. Girl Seeks Girl (Chica Busca Chica) has been billed as Spain\u2018s &#8220;L Word.&#8221; The women are young and beautiful; they live a wild and exciting life; and they fit the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,34,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}