This sad and strange Peruvian film is showing at the Stratford Picturehouse on Thursday. I’m miffed that I can’t go so I am sharing it with you, my tiny reading public.
The protagonist, a young woman called Fausta, is ill with a disease contracted from her mother’s breast milk known as “the milk of sorrow”, a condition that only affects those women in Peru who were abused or raped during the years of terrorist struggle. This Grauniad review says “This Peruvian lament examining how distress passes down the generations is subtle and wonderfully moving.”
Here’s the trailer. Please go and support the screening of weird films at Stratford Picturehouse!*
* ‘Weird’ is intended to be entirely complimentary, btw