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The film is gorgeously shot and contains a plethora of haunting images.
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80A 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."
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80A rich and imaginative evocation of a family in turmoil.
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80In 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.
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80At first, the picture seems a slow-moving, particularly well-framed ethnographic study of life in the big city in Peru; it only gradually becomes clear that Llosa's second feature perfectly aligns form and content.
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75Magaly Solier is compelling as the teen. She has little to say, as the camera remains fixated on her expressionless face.
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75The Milk Of Sorrow is lousy with allegory, and is often too heavy for its own good.
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Solier delivers a performance of ferocious but frustrating reserve.
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60The transformation that you anticipate never comes; the movie feels strangled.
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50The Milk of Sorrow is constrained by a rarefied screenplay and a near-mute central performance.