Spain-Peru  |  100 Minutes
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PLEASE NOTE: This movie has beautiful photography however, the story depicts awful stereotypes about indigenous people in South America. On the contrary, Claudia Llosa’s second movie, “The Milk of Sorrow” is a great movie that shows in  a respectful and empowering way some of the horrors indigenous people faced during Peru’s decades of civil strife and it’s consequences now a days.

Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can’t see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa and her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo, the Mayor and local big shot, maintain this tradition without questioning it. However, everything changes with the arrival in the village of Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, who will unknowingly change the destiny of the girl.

Claudia Llosa’s Madeinusa Movie Stills

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