An approach to "The Milk of Sorrow" as a hispanic intercultural narrative film

Abstract

The following article aims to develop a Hispanic intercultural cinematic study of the film “The Milk of Sorrow,” written and directed by the Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa that was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2009. The plot of the movie tells the story of Fausta, a young girl descendant of Amerindians who suffers from a rare disease called “milk of sorrow” or “shock syndrome”, the name given to a supposed disease transmitted by fear and suffering of the mother for her child through breast milk reaching the daughters of women who were raped by terrorists or the Peruvian army soldiers in the decade of the eighties, a time of social and political instability in recent history of Peru. The connection between cinema, society and culture emerged significant and close relations from the perspective of an intercultural film that, according Hudson (2010), attempts to translate into images the experience of living between two or more different cultures and societies that view new ways of thinking and knowledge and can be considered a shared movie for people who have suffered displacement and who lived hybrid modes, as the case of the film “the Milk of Sorrow”.