Peruvian born director Claudia Llosa has been turning heads on the international festival circuit with her latest offering, La Teta Asustada, or The Milk Of Sorrow, a film based around the fascinating premise that Peruvian women exposed to the ongoing war and guerilla fighting in their home country are passing a mysterious illness to their children through their breast milk. The lead character of the film, Fausta, is one such child afflicted by The Illness of Fear, an illness that has - among other things - led to her inserting a potato into her own vagina to ward off unwelcome intruders. It's a shocking image - so much so that it threatens to overwhelm the film so that it becomes simply the potato-vagina film - but the just-arrived trailer casts this is an absolutely fantastic light. Very well shot, with a truly rhythmic sense to the editing, this looks fantastic. Check it out below the break.
