During the last years, Peruvian cinema has greatly improved. This is mostly due to one film director, writer and producer, a 38 years-old woman from Lima: Claudia Llosa Bueno, whose main production has been “The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada)”, a 2009 film. This was her second film, which was nominated for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category. However, other of her productions include “Madeinusa” (2005), “El niño pepita” (2010), the short film “Loxoro” (2011), and her most recent film: 2014's “Aloft”, which starred great international actors, such as Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, and Mélanie Laurent. Although many others Peruvians films have been released, such as “Asu Mare” (2013), “Asu Mare 2” (2015), and “A los 40” (2014), these are not movies we should be proud of, as their topic is not as deep as Claudia's productions. However, there are many other films we should be definitely proud of: Eduardo Mendoza's “El evangelio de la carne” (2013), starring Giovanni Ciccia and Jimena Lindo; …show more content…
Bacha Caravedos' “Perro guardián” (2014), starring Carlos Alcántara; Vega's brothers “El mudo” (2014), and “Octubre” (2014), shown in the Cannes Film Festival; Salvador Del Solar's “Magallanes” (2015), starring Damián Alcázar, Magaly Solier and Christian Meier; Hector Galvez's “NN: Sin identidad” (2015), starring Paul Vega; and Francisco Lombardi's “Dos besos” (2015), starring Wendy Vásquez, Mayella Lloclla, and Javier Vásquez. In the next paragraphs, a brief description (which include their synopsis, their cast, and the awards they had received) of all Claudia's productions will be presented. “The Milk of Sorrow” was directed and written by Llosa, being released in 2009.
It is, definitely, its main important and known film. It is about terrorism and its effects, and, also, about the recovery of self-esteem as a fundamental part of the process of healing a country in which fear, violence and ignorance is the base relationship between two people, must face. As the UL student Andres Luna cited, “Claudia Llosa proposes to face directly the injury and to accept we have acted wrong to not repeat the errors that were committed in the past, and seeks reconciliation between everyone of us”. Its main character is Fausta, starred by the Peruvian actress Magaly Solier. It was shortlisted for the 59th Berlin International Film Festival; and the first Peruvian film nominated for the Golden Bear award, finally, winning it. Due to all this facts, in 2010, Claudia Llosa was invited to become a member of Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences. Four years earlier, in 2005, in Peru, she released her second film: “Madeinusa”. This is set in the fictional indigenous village of Manayaycuna, ("the town no one can enter"), located in the Peruvian Andes. It covers three days in the lives of the villagers and a stranger from Lima, Salvador (starred by Carlos de la Torre), who was unwelcome because he arrived at the beginning of the "Holy Time", time during, they believe, God is dead, and therefore, nothing is a sin. It also stars Magaly Solier, who represents a teenaged girl selected as the festival's Mater Dolorosa and daughter of the village mayor, who is presented under the eponymous Madeinusa, who encounters with Salvador, being this the center of the drama. It won several international awards, including the FIPRESCI International Critics Award, at Rotterdam Festival, and the Best Latin American Film Award, at Malaga Festival. In 2010, a year after the great impact “Milk of Sorrow”, the great filmmaker Claudia Llosa released “El niño pepita”, her least known film, and, one year later, in 2011, in Peru, her first short movie (which lasts twenty minutes) was released: “Loxoro”. It was produced by the Oscar winner Juan José Campanella, being shortlisted for the Berlin International Film Festival, and winning the Teddy Award in the category of Best Short Film.It tries to reflex about the idea of a frontier from the perspective of the barriers that exist within the gay and transexual community in Peru. It is about the seek done by Makuti, starred by Belissa Andía, a transgender mother, after the disappearance of her transgender daughter Mia, starred by Ariana Wésember. During this, Makuti travels throughout every place Mia was in the past. In this, the hidden face of the transexual world of Lima is shown, a community that tries to defend itself from segregation and that uses an own language: loxoro, also known as hungarian, with the purpose of being heard. Finally, last year, in 2014, she released “Aloft”, a film which starred great international actors: the American Jennifer Connelly (Academy Award winner for Best Actress in a Leading Role, due to “Beautiful Mind”), the irish Cillian Murphy, and the French Mélanie Laurent (Broadcast Film Critics Association Award winner for Best Cast, due to “Inglourious Basterds”). This film is about the encounter of a mother (Jennifer Connelly), who is a renowned artist and healer, with his son (Cillian Murphy) she abandoned twenty years earlier, due to an accident. The mother is helped by a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent), putting this encounter the very meaning of life and art into question, so that we may contemplate the possibility of living to its fullest, despite the uncertainties littering our paths. This film inaugurated Malaga Festival. As shown in all of her productions, Claudia constantly seeks to remind that, despite the precarious aid, there is a lot of effort that have been done by Peruvian filmmakers and a huge talent that can be used in Perú. Her movies, and our cinema, generally, reflects the latin american problem: the fact that we still have a difficulty to be constant, as many efforts are done, but they are not maintained with time, due to the lack of statal support. This was clearly expressed by Claudia, on September 19th, 2014, in New York, when she said “Peruvian cinema must be watched and it will be interesting to give it more continuity.” She also expressed, during New York Festival that “there are examples of wonderful movies that must be known, and not only in the rest of the world, but, mostly, in Peru, as the strength of cinema is very clear. Therefore, it is possible to create an identity, if it can be called this way”. She is, definitely, the best Peruvian filmmaker we have ever had. All the awards she had received and the festivals in which her films have been presented are a great honor for our country However, there is still much to do by Peruvian filmmakers. As Claudia Llosa said, they must be constant, as our cinema has much more to present to the world. Perú's cinema is one of the greatest, and, one day, in the future who knows if it will be world known.
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