Fausta (Magaly Solier) has a pretty face made somber by poverty and pain, including rape and other horror in her family past. Claudia Llosa’s Peruvian debut feature, set mostly in a harsh Lima slum, shows this Lady of Constant Sorrow slowly emerging from spiritual trauma by way of music, flowers, and a few kind souls. It’s a poetic, solemn fable of endurance, often wonderfully photographed. (2010) — David Elliott
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