Hot Milk

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Hot Milk
Starring Emma Mackey, Vicky Krieps, Fiona Shaw, Vincent Perez
Directed by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

There's been movies I've seen that I don't understand, but it's because it's so richly written and performed it was something marvelous to see. Other times there's movies I don't understand because its so convoluted and boring it couldn't keep my attention for more than twenty seconds. Sadly, "Hot Milk" is the latter. I watched it with my own two eyes, I saw scenes happening, heard characters talking but it was so boring it was almost wiped from my memory as the next scene began.

Sofia (Emma Mackey) is a wayward woman working on her Master's but is forced to take care of her ailing mother Rose (Fiona Shaw) who's been confined to a wheelchair for twenty years, suffering from an ailment no doctor can decipher. So they travel to Spain to see Dr. Gomez (Vincent Perez), a man who might have what could cure Rose, or could be a charlatan. Sofia becomes suffocated by taking care of Rose, and one day on the beach she meets Ingrid (Vicky Krieps) riding a horse, and the two women began a relationship that allows Sofia to feel loved and appreciated by someone other than her mother. 

Honestly, seriously, "Hot Milk" was a hot mess. Nothing happens throughout the movie, and the ending is left so ambiguous you don't know what's real and what's imagined, and you really don't care. The performers are fine (although I expected more out of Vicky Krieps personally), and the cinematography is stunning with the use of setting, but the overall story is bland, stale, and tries to be more pretentious than it is. It's one of those movies you'll never forget - because you'll never remember it existed in the first place.

The Score: D- 

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