Milk

[Available April 13 via streaming on MUBI.] Andrea Arnold's heartbreaking, well-acted, down-to-earth, moving, realistic, 11-minute, 1998 film in which a distraught, grieving, lactating British woman (Lynda Steadman), who lost her baby during childbirth, decides not to attend the funeral with her grief-stricken partner (Stephen McGann) and then impulsively takes a road trip with a stranger (Lee Oakes) in a stolen vehicle where they get drunk on vodka and have sex in the car as she tries to forget her baby's tragic death.
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