Tributes — Retrospectives — Films about cinema
PERU, Spain | 93 minutes | 2009
Fausta, a young Peruvian woman, suffers from “the milk of sorrow,” a very rare condition transmitted through mother’s milk. She is reclusive by nature, but when her mother dies she must leave her uncle’s house for her home village. In her second feature film, Claudia Llosa relates the heartbreaking story of a cursed heroine who gradually frees herself from her past traumas. This captivating, poetic work about reclaiming dignity is set in a rural Peru that has never fully recovered from the bloody guerrilla warfare of the 1970s through 1990s.35mm copy - as part of the tribute to K-Films Amérique's 25 years anniversaryERRATUM: The film was previously scheduled at 5:15pm in Cinémathèque Fernand-Seguin."The movie, which won the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, is littered with unforgettable images of incongruity, destruction, and, finally, healing." Village Voice"If you accurately described each scene, you'd have a book of poetry. That's how detailed and vivid are The Milk of Sorrow's rhythms." NY Press
Golden Bear & FIPRESCI Award - Berlin Film Festival 2009
Academy Awards nomination for best foreign feature
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A charismatic French writer passing through Montreal, a young female student who idolizes him, her shrewish mother, a discarded husband and a good-natured...
Feature film, Fiction
CANADA, FRANCE | 93 minutes | 1994
Arriving home from work, Suzanne is raped. The initiator of the NFB’s avant-garde En tant que femmes series, director Anne-Claire Poirier, shakes us with...
QUéBEC, CANADA | 96 minutes | 1979
It all happens in one day. A group of men and women are at the bar where a wedding reception was due to take place. The former wait to be served by the...
QUéBEC, CANADA | 82 minutes | 1980
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