The Milk of Sorrow

The Milk of Sorrow

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Release Date

2/13/2009

Runtime

94 mins

Genres

Overview

Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.

Status

Released

Original Language

Spanish

Budget

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Revenue

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A haunting meditation on inherited trauma and generational pain, rendered as a strange, dreamlike fable that transforms personal grief into something mythic and inescapable.

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MelancholicUnsettlingContemplativeMournful

Themes

GriefFamilyIdentitySurvival

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

FormalistPainterlyStylized genre

Structure

Linear

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Sexual violenceBody horror

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