Apparently this movie won the 'Golden bear' in Berlin
Did anyone see it? What is it about?
shareyeah, I am also very curious, seems like we are the first to even visit the forum. This film must have made quite the impression!
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Looking forward to seeing this!
But it did happen
The Award is The Golden Bear.
Ed Norton is Tyler Durden and Rosebud is the sled.
REVIEW of the film La teta asustada from 2009 Berlin International Film Festival website:
Fausta is ill with a disease contracted from her mother's breast milk known as "the milk of sorrow". However, this is not a sickness caused by bacteria or infection: it is a condition that only affects those women in Peru who were abused or raped during the years of terrorist struggle.
Although this horrific period is now history, Fausta is nonetheless a living reminder of this time. Her sickness is called fear - and it has robbed her of her soul. But then, when her mother suddenly dies, Fausta is forced to face her fears. The overpowering nature of these fears, and the desperate lengths to which Fausta will go to assuage them is revealed by her biggest secret: in order to bar loathsome intruders from entering her body she has inserted a potato into her vagina as a kind of antibacterial "defence shield". However, her mother's death unleashes unexpected events that change Fausta's life dramatically, as well as the lives of others involved. Fausta now sets out on a journey - a journey that will lead her out of her fear and into freedom.
Peruvian director Claudia Llosa's film addresses a dark era of her country's history. Established in 2001, the Peruvian "commission for truth and reconciliation" (Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, CVR) has registered almost 70,000 murder cases, as well as countless rapes, abductions and other human rights abuses in the period from 1980 to the year 2000.
(Souce; http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php? film_id=20090090)
Sounds like a ... very special theme.
Would have to watch it thought before i say what i think about it.
I saw this at the festival and this was a deserving winner.
'La teta asustada is a movie from Peru that explores the mental and emotional journey of a young woman, carrying a torch of emotional and physical pain in her quest to find the source of her suffering.
A little gem, wonderfully acted and directed, with a script that is strangely hurting and true to the soul.
9/10
I've seen it (saw it in theaters here in Peru two weeks after it was announced that the movie had won the Berlinale). Needless to say, it's a very solid movie, well worth the watch. I haven't seen a movie this good by a Peruvian director in a very long time (granted, I'm not very well versed in my own country's cinematic history, mainly because there's not much of history to begin with). I don't know who else was competing, so I can't say if this movie deserved the prize or not.
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Bad movie.
The germans give an award to everything that sound exotic for they.
This movie is boring, whitout sense, unexplicable and I thing, a little unrespectful of originals peruvians culture.
Oscar from Rosario City
Argentina