View Item - FR-V004-1969

Language:
French
Category:
Comedy
Duration:
105 minutes
Catalog Num:
FR-V004-1969
Title:
La Voie lactée / The Milky Way
Item Type:
Video
Medium:
VHS
Program:
Romance Languages

Reserved:
No
Status:
Available

"A satire of organized religion constantly occupying the border between ridiculing the church and reinforcing its prophetic mysticism. Nevertheless, Luis Buñuel prefers the criticizing the church for its hypocrisies and absurdities. Buñuel proves himself a master, changing theological debates into wacky nightmares, concocting a series of surrealistic shaggy dog stories about corrupt priests and mad heretics. Two scraggly hippie pilgrims set out on a modern odyssey that sends them traveling dizzily through time to meet Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the Devil, the Marquis de Sade, and a multitude of fools and knaves who wielded oppressive power in the name of holiness, played with delicious style by an all-star cast." Director: Luis Buñuel. Color. Country: France. Subtitled.

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