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When Ingrid (Vicky Krieps) approaches Sofia (Emma Mackey) on horseback like a pixie mirage, Sofia is instantly captivated, or when Ingrid says, "Do you have any cigarettes? Well, let's go," even though they've just met, one wants to believe they're traveling in a hidden code of desire, psychically connected strangers tanning on the Iberian peninsula. Ingrid, a gauzily veiled German expat dressed as a jaunty lesbian pirate or a swashbuckling waitress, is so empty of a woman in "Hot Milk," Rebecca Lenkiewicz's directorial debut, that this study of lesbian malaise on the shores of the Mediterranean becomes strangely subdued.  Adapting Deborah Levy's 2016 novel, whose title subtly evokes images of breastfeeding, among other bodily activities related to reproduction, the screenwriter of "She Said" and "Disobedience" casts Mackey and Krieps as lovers amid the ruins of Fiona Shaw's anguish. The great Irish actress plays Rose, Sof...