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...Milk of Sorrow,” directed by Peruvian film writer and producer Claudia Llosa, explores the tragic aftermath of Peru’s infamous “Shining Path” uprising in the 1980s and early 1990s...
Theidon, who first learned of “The Milk of Sorrow’s” existence last year when friends began sending her congratulatory e-mails on the film’s growing success, said she has never met Llosa in person and only corresponded with her through e-mail. Theidon also said that though she was not consulted during the production of the film, she has no complaints about the finished product and is considering a trip to Los Angeles for the Oscar party a week from Sunday...
...touched] by the idea of making a movie where [the] audience would feel the burden of inheriting pain and violence,” Llosa wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson. “But at the same time, [it would] show how they are able to redeem themselves and put an end with all this sorrow...
...Llosa plans to attend a Harvard screening and discussion of her film, which will be coordinated by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies later this spring...
...Havana edition of “Feria del Libro” is currently an ironic one. In Cuba, only governmentally-approved books are permitted. It may come as a surprise that works by the greatest authors in the Spanish language, like Guillermo Cabrera-Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa, will not be featured anywhere at the event—and forget about any American classics. Anything opposing or threatening to the regime is censored. A similar irony that is greatly damaging for the “champion” of democracy who visited Harvard is the venue for the fair...