To a nomad in the sparse Mongolian dessert, Milk is a coveted source of nourishment contained
\nin all traditional food. It is also a symbol of the virtuous nature of women, their rite of passage
\ninto motherhood and destined place in the world as a giver.<\/p>\n
Directrice and actress Uisenma Borchu boldly portrays an unsettled Mongolian woman living in Germany, tired and unfulfilled, who embarks on a philosophical quest in the Gobi desert to confront the fundamentality of her existentialism and feminine nature. Her arrival at her sister’s tent begins as a culture clash between two women who lived under different circumstances for many years – modernity versus tradition, displacement versus abandonment – that transforms into an ideological struggle for emancipation and embrace of their sisterhood.<\/p>\n
But can they break from the patriarchal complex and expect to remain virtuous? Borchu reframes femininity with the subtle awakening that a woman can only love, once she learns to be. Employing jump cuts between the physical and psychological dimensions of two sisters in a lyrical tug-of-war, it is an intimately primal look at the counter politics of the ownership of a woman’s body and psyche in a masculine world, one that exudes raw sensuality and power amidst a majestic landscape of endless hinterland. That a woman can give; and a woman can claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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