The Milk of Sorrow
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 7, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Olive Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Magaly Solier, Susi Sánchez, Efrain Solis, Marino Ballon & Delci Heredia | |
Directed by | Claudia Llosa | |
Screenwriting by | Claudia Llosa | |
Composition by | Selma Mutal | |
Director of Photography: | Natasha Braier |
Entertainment Reviews:
Llosa, daughter of the author Mario Vargas Llosa, employs symbolism so overwrought, her material might well have been better served as a text-even given the film's abundant visual virtues (particularly its spectacular use of landscape).
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Film Comment Magazine
Rating: 3/4 --
In due course, the painstakingly composed cinematography seduces the viewer.
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Film-Forward.com
[O]therworldly....Llosa's remarkable eye compensates...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 7/10 --
Ably gives voice to a period in history almost completely invisible to the world at large.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
The movie, which won the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, is littered with unforgettable images of incongruity, destruction, and, finally, healing.
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Village Voice
Rating: 3/5 --
Trauma is buried and rarely alluded to in this quiet slice of magical realism -- but there's no denying the pain when it comes.
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Time Out
Some people have to be so brave just to live a normal life. What makes The Milk of Sorrow special is that, without being overbearing or explicit, Fausta's struggles to do just that can be seen as a metaphor for the struggles of Peru itself.
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Critic's Notebook
Product Description:
Director Claudia Llosa follows her award-winning feature directorial debut, MADEINUSA, with this stark meditation on a grim period of South American history in which approximately 70,000 people were murdered between the years 1980 and 2000. Fausta (Magaly Solier) has fallen ill with a disease passed down from mother to daughter through breast milk. But Fausta's affliction isn't biological; it strictly affects Peruvian women who were raped or abused during those two terrible decades of persecution. While those days are long gone, Fausta stands as a living reminder of the horrors that once plagued her country, her malady a deep-rooted fear that stripped the young innocent of her soul. After Fausta's mother dies, the horrified girl is forced to confront her greatest fear by staring straight into the black heart of her own paranoia. Now, as Fausta sets out to discover her own path to freedom, she inserts a potato into her vagina in order to protect her body from unwanted intruders.
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