Hello everyone,

Happy new year!

For this week, we are showing a Peruvian movie
"La teta asustada (Milk of Sorrow)" directed by Claudia Llosa (more details below).

Please feel free to pass the message around
and invite your friends.  Hope you can join us.

Regards,

Tom Co


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Date and Time: January 12, Wednesday, 6:30-9pm  

Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock

Title: La teta asustada (Milk of SOrrow)
Director: Claudia Llosa

Partial List of Actors:
  Magaly Solier
  Susi Sánchez
  Efraín Solís
  Bárbara Lazón
  Delci Heredia
  Karla Heredia
  Fernando Caycho

Length: 95 mins

Language: Spanish, Quechua (with English subtitles)

Summary: (by Ella Taylor, via www.villagevoice.com )
  "...Fausta (Magaly Solier) is a shy young villager
  so terrorized by memories of rape sung to her by
  her mother ...littered with unforgettable images of
  incongruity (an orgy of frothy wedding dresses amid
  dire poverty), destruction (an aerial view of a smashed
  piano, and two women scrambling for pearls across a
  class divide), and, finally, healing, in which a
  taciturn man who makes things grow offers Fausta a way
  out of her fear and the means to bury her beloved mother"

My Comments:

  The cinematography and direction is very
  good.  However, the movie is indeed slow,
  and has a strange atmosphere of gloom.  
  Some reviews said it had magic realism, but
  I did not detect too much - perhaps more an
  air of surrealism.

  I think the movie is really a journey of
  the main character from a state of almost
  paralized existence resulting from her
  mothers' horrible experience.  The journey
  is indeed difficult and slow.  I do not
  know much about the history of Peru, and
  the movie does not really give explicit
  details either.  The movie also contain
  some songs that are quite sad
  and beautiful (at least I think so).

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