The Milky Way (1969 film)
The Milky Way French La Voie lacte is a 1969 film directed by Luis Buuel. It stars Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Georges Marchal and Michel Piccoli. Buuel later called The Milky Way the first in a trilogy along with The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty about the search for truth.
In the film, two men travel the ancient pilgrimage road to Santiago de Compostela and meet embodiments of various Catholic heresies along the way. These religious events are based on actual historical documents. For instance, the archbishop whose corpse is exhumed and publicly burned is based on Archbishop Carranza of Toledo. The film ends with the following textThe Milky Way plays with time. The two main characters often encounter individuals in the dress of various time periods throughout history, or historical events take place in the modern setting of the film, including scenes from the life of Jesus Christ. In his autobiography, Buuel explains that he wanted to put Jesus Christ in the film because he wanted to show him as an ordinary man, laughing, running, mistaking his way, preparing to shave to show, in other words, all those aspects completely alien to our traditional iconography. ........
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