Solier delivers a performance of ferocious but frustrating reserve.
The Milk of Sorrow(La teta asustada)
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Spain, Peru · 2009
1h 34m
Director Claudia Llosa
Starring Magaly Solier, Susi Sánchez, Efraín Solís, Marino Ballón
Genre Drama
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Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.
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A rich and imaginative evocation of a family in turmoil.
In this wonderfully strange, hypnotically beautiful second feature from writer-director Claudia Llosa, the traumatic experience of the 1980s civil war on Peruvian women is passed down through song and, it is said, through their mothers' milk.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
The Milk of Sorrow is constrained by a rarefied screenplay and a near-mute central performance.
The transformation that you anticipate never comes; the movie feels strangled.
A sweeping theme writ small and somewhat gnarly, The Milk of Sorrow is, as Llosa has written, about "unresolved, violent, personal and collective memory" and a "metaphor for breakdown."
The Milk Of Sorrow is lousy with allegory, and is often too heavy for its own good.
Magaly Solier is compelling as the teen. She has little to say, as the camera remains fixated on her expressionless face.
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