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Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Claudio Carvalho The drifters Pierre (Paul Frankeur) and Jean (Laurent Terzieff) pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain hitchhiking and begging for food. Along their journey, they face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.I have seen most of Buñuel films and this director is among my favorites. The master of the surrealism uses Catholic symbols in his films fruit of his strict religious education among the Jesuits. Unfortunately "La Voie Lactée" is an unfunny and boring mess since I can not laugh with jokes with any religion. For me, this is the worst film of Buñuel's filmography so far. My vote is two.Title (Brazil): "Via Láctea" ("Milky Way")

Polaris_DiB Yes, Bunuel, I agree. Catholicism is weird.In "The Milky Way", Luis Bunuel essentially creates a surrealist narrative by taking Christian, and especially Catholic, thought to its direct interpretation. It works very well for some neat set ups and interesting moments, but then again that's always the problem of taking on a religion--if you take the texts literally, sure, you can prove a point. You're also missing their point. And when it comes to dogma, well of course it's absurd! I don't know, in this case I can't claim to be too impressed with Bunuel's statement.However, I can still be impressed by his directing, particularly since the guy knows where to put the camera. Like any later Bunuel (and most other Bunuel as well), The Milky Way should be watched by aspiring filmmakers so that they can more fully understand the concept of blocking. In this movie especially, he favors a dolly in/dolly out technique which really helps provide emphasis while keeping a distance. It's like a curious person running over to take a quick look, understanding that they don't belong, and then backing off. That pretty much perfectly represents Bunuel's feelings on the issues, I think.--PolarisDiB

christopher-underwood I found this tale of a couple of tramp like figures ostensibly making a pilgrimage to Spain, interesting and amusing but by halfway was finding a lot of the dialogue annoying. Lots of religious diatribes and spouting and contradictions. I began to weary of the non-stop barrage of stupidity and then it gradually dawned on me that Bunuel was taking the p***. Indeed I note from the closing credits that all the dogma and seeming unbelievable tosh, were all exact quotes from religious tracts and writings throughout the history of Christianity. Bunuel has, in fact, very cleverly set up a believable tale, in which along the way he manages to get so much of this stuff said that it beautifully illustrates just how crazy some of this stuff is. Still not an easy first sitting but maybe with the knowledge gained a second viewing would be more enjoyable.

Kienzle This masterpiece is Bunuel at his best. It draws from the confrontational and revolutionary fire present in his Mexican films like "Il Brute", the intelligent and informed humor of his earlier religious farce, "Simon of The Desert", and I believe serves as a living picture of the transition his work seemed to under go between the more vivid and shocking Dali inspired surrealism of his early carrer (the obvious example being "Un Chien Andalou") and the more subtle and organic magical-realist influenced surrealism of "That Obscure Object of Desire". This film is certainly not light however. While there are no razor blindings or ant infested ears, the pope does fall victim to a firing squad of radicals. In fact I believe Bunuel succeds in leaving the viewer much more disgusted and upset by confronting him with the stark realities of the Catholic faith, and after all isn't that what surrealism is all about? It must be said that in order to understand and appreciate this film one must have a very good understanding of a variety of religious thinkers and of the history/practices of the catholic church. If you don't have such a background but are still lucky enough to get a chance to view this film, by all means take it, more likely than not it will inspire you to investigate the matter further and Bunuel conveniently mentions the names of all most all the writers he references in the film so take that list to a library, read up and watch it again, you won't be disappointed.