{"id":6198,"date":"2009-11-10T01:25:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2009-11-10T07:06:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T15:06:37","slug":"the-milk-of-sorrow-claudia-llosa-2009-spainperu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6198","title":{"rendered":"The Milk Of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa, 2009): Spain|Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Lea Encarnacion<\/a>. \u00a0Viewed at the Mann Chinese Theater in Hollywood during the AFI Film Festival 2009.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Milk Of Sorrow<\/em> <\/a>(La Teta Asustada) is a sad and beautiful film about a Peruvian girl who had inherited a sickness through birth from her mother during Peru\u2019s terrorism and war time (\u201870s-\u201890s).\u00a0 The film is filled with rich and vivid scenes and colors and unaccompanied songs sung by the lead characters, used to tell the drama of the past.\u00a0 The film is directed by Claudia Llosa and features Magaly Solier, who have worked together in the past on Madeinusa (a film also about Peruvian indigenous culture).<\/p>\n

In the opening scene, the mother sings a song in her home, telling the story of her gruesome and terrorized past, and then passes away shortly after.\u00a0 Her daughter, Fausta, is traumatized and left to stay with her uncle.\u00a0 His family is poor and her uncle cannot afford to pay for his own daughter\u2019s wedding, his sister\u2019s funeral, and for Fausta\u2019s medical expenses.\u00a0 So, Fausta goes and finds work as a housemaid for a famed pianist to earn money in order to pay for a proper burial for her mother.\u00a0 When the pianist hears her singing, she offers the pearls from her necklace in exchange for the melody.\u00a0 As it turns out, she is very manipulative and had used Fausta\u2019s melody to play it at her concert for her own benefit, not giving Fausta the promised pearls and leaving her out alone on the street.\u00a0 Fausta faces other obstacles like her fear of being alone, and having medical conditions from a potato in her body, which was placed inside her so that she wouldn\u2019t face her mother\u2019s experiences. Other scenes include weddings and of Fausta befriending the pianist\u2019s kind gardener.\u00a0 Will Fausta find resolution for herself and her mother in the end?<\/p>\n

This film is beautifully shot, with strong direction, warm music, and cinematography that evoke a great atmosphere.\u00a0 The rhythm and pace is slow and steady, which fits perfectly for the dramatic sequences that observe Fausta\u2019s aloofness, entrapment and isolation from a distance. Magaly Solier (who plays Fausta) gave an award-winning performance in this film and is a very talented actress as well.\u00a0 The Milk of Sorrow is very similar to the film Madeinusa (also directed by Claudia Llosa and features Magaly Solier).\u00a0 The Milk Of Sorrow is worth a watch and I would recommend it to anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Lea Encarnacion. \u00a0Viewed at the Mann Chinese Theater in Hollywood during the AFI Film Festival 2009. The Milk Of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada) is a sad and beautiful film about a Peruvian girl who had inherited a sickness through birth from her mother during Peru\u2019s terrorism and war time (\u201870s-\u201890s).\u00a0 The film is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-filmfest-2009","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}