For young Mexican woman Ana living in Los Angeles in ‘Real Women have Curves’ her battle is to make her own life for herself. A spirited young woman she is about to graduate from High School and with her pass she wants to leave home and go to college.
Her dilemma is whether she can free herself from her close knit family ties. She is close to her grandmother. Her elder sister, Estelle, needs her to help her in her garment making factory. Her mother Carmen wants her to get married and have children. Her only supporter is her father Raul however in a very female dominated family is his voice doesn’t get much airing.
Directed by Patricia Cardosa and starring America Ferrara as Ana, ‘Real Women have Curves’ was an uplifting, well observed, feminist film.