Written and directed by Claudia Llosa
NI review:
As she lies dying, an old peasant woman sings the song of her life. She tells of her rape in the civil war, and having to eat her husband’s penis. Fausta, her daughter, is withdrawn and generally fearful, particularly of men. To avoid rape herself, she places a potato in her vagina – she has absorbed, with her mother’s first breast milk, her sorrow and trauma.
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