Peru's 'The Milk of Sorrow' nominated for Oscar, Foreign Language Film

Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares (Magaly Solier as Fausta).

'The Milk of Sorrow', 'La Teta Asustada' directed by Claudia Llosa.
In the aftermath of Peru's violent and repressive former regime, many young women bear emotional scars that have been passed on to them by their victimized mothers. For the withdrawn Fausta (Magaly Solier), this legacy is a crippling burden that informs the most intimate aspects of her life. Source: Oscar.com

A golden rectangle is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the golden ratio, one-to-phi, that is, approximately 1:1.618. A distinctive feature of this shape is that when a square section is removed, the remainder is another golden rectangle, that is, with the same proportions as the first. Square removal can be repeated infinitely, which leads to an approximation of the golden or Fibonacci spiral.

'The Milk of Sorrow' nominated for the Oscar
February 2, 2010.
The Oscar nominations were announced and the film by Claudia Llosa is among the top five best foreign films. This film won the Golden Bear 2009 in Berlin.