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The Milk of Sorrow

La teta asustada

2009

A withdrawn young Peruvian woman believes she has inherited her mother's terror — the fear passed down from the years of political violence — through her breast milk, and lives paralyzed by dread until she must venture out to bury her mother. Claudia Llosa's haunting, Oscar-nominated drama.

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