GRADE: 8.5
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.
Original Title: La voie lactée
Director: Luis Buñuel
Country: France | Italy
THOUGHTS:
Conceptually amazing: two modern men make a pilgrimage that was common in the Middle Ages, and encounter dogmatists and heretics from different time periods, as well as Jesus himself, along the way. The mix of modern and historical settings and characters is heady, and the dialogue is funny, ambiguous, and cutting all at once. It’s an excoriating critique of they hypocrisy, absurdity, and illogic of organized religion–one that Buñuel was born to make.