Ripper from the first scene, award-winning film by Claudia Llosa "... portrays one of the most difficult times in recent Peruvian history ..." according to their own statements about a week to learn of the nomination for best foreign film Oscar. Last year he won the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival and has been nominated for several other international awards, such as festivals of Havana, Bogota and Guadalajara, as well as the most important English film Goya.
is a story that while not "literal" in many aspects and parts of the story is a cruel and absolute realism in the majority. The horror stories of people who lived and suffered from about the age of terror is real, extreme poverty and very extreme of thousands of people living on the outskirts of the city of Lima is real, the film was shot on stage real, in an area that exists in the Desert Lima and where no water service, sewage or electricity, where life is worth little and death is face to face.
However, marriages that seem taken from a Fellini film and the most singular Andean beliefs are a colorful and special temperature, despite the poverty of the desert and the film starring Magaly Solier.
down stairs where the couple are installed in the desert which steps of the plane, the cousin of the protagonist want a long veil on her wedding day and to "fly" hits all the edge balloons, pictures of the couple have a photograph of a forest landscape despite being taken in the middle of the sand and the parade is engraved wedding gifts such as in the marriages of our mountains, the surreal of the everyday and call attention to the need further reconciliation in a country still wounded soul, is to me "The Milk of Sorrow" extraordinary film.
Story (Taken from Wikipedia)
The story centers on Faust (Magaly Solier), a young woman who (according to their beliefs) have a condition called "Empty Nest", a strange disease that spread fear and suffering of mother to child through breast milk and that her mother was raped during the period of terrorism in Peru (The film does not specify who committed the crime (although it is well known that both military government and subversive committed atrocities against Andean peoples, even to people disappear whole) during the time of the worst violence that Peru has registered (1980-1992).
The war ended, but Fausta lives to remember because the disease stole her soul. Now the sudden death of her mother forced her to face her fears and the secret that keeps in its interior. In the course of his life and to hear the terrible stories his mother told him through his songs (sung in Quechua language), Fausta shuts itself and live in a bubble of traumas and fears, that makes it repel any contact with men (but not with members of his own family), listening to a story about how some women were protected from rape to enter a tuber in the vagina, and be rejected by the rapists, she decides to do the same, Though war between the military and rebels ended, she lives imbued with these fears. Mother and daughter
migrate to a Young people (not specified when, although the family meet Fausta's uncle, who has a family of events for festivals and marriages), on the outskirts of Lima, where in its entirety live, people who escaped violence of the Andes, and fled into the wilderness (History shows us the town after almost 2 generations of installed here), with their homes still under construction, and create a mini village. that despite their material miseries, learn to enjoy life through their dances, customs, celebrations and meetings. Fausta
enters a slow process of understanding with the outside world, her native language is Quechua, and she decides to face the outside for the love of his deceased mother, which has to bury him, that is why we decided to get a job with the money to take her and bury her in her hometown. The fact fight their fears and face the society, makes known to the gardener which is identified as able to communicate in their native language (Quechua), and lends a disinterested help.
When passing family history shows concern for her, for they know not what will happen to her once her mother is buried. Near the end of the film, he decides to teach him a lesson, after the completion of the marriage of his daughter, and after drinking a few glasses, approaches Fausta and seeks to stifle it, wanting to defend it and want to breathe, crying says "Do not look like you want to live !!"... "Do not look like you want to live !!".. then she decides to flee, and the guy is crying, "Fausta, .. Do not let yourself die," Fausta learn to fight against their fears, and decides to turn the tuber removed from his body, ends up burying his mother before ocean and thus perhaps a new beginning to his life.
The Sea as an endpoint has a symbolic act, representing the infinite ocean, and shown as small beings in front of such grandeur. (Here the director shows us an image of hope in front of so much suffering and Desolation). The film ends
Fausta, receiving from the Gardener, the tuber germinating, and showing their flowers .. (A message, which can encompass a lot, like losing the fear to remember, because that way you can forgive, reflect, and continue to fight for life.)
