La Vía Láctea

Film Information:
Year:

1969

The Milky Way

Países:

   

Director:

Luis Buñuel

Color:

Color

Format:

35 mm

Duration:

min

Cast:

  • Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny,
  • Edith Scob, Bernard Verley

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Luis Buñuel,
  • Jean-Claude Carrière
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Christian Matras
  • MONTAJE: Louisette Hautecoeur
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Serge Silberman

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Synopsis

In cinema no one laughed at the Church as hard as Buñuel did, who was born and raised in one of those severely Christian villages that multiplied through the Spanish countryside in the beginning of the 20th century. A connoisseur of all the rituals and mannerisms of the catholic creed, he enjoyed searching for paradoxes and contradictions with a fierceness which –opposite to what one could expect– increased through the years. The Milky Way, shot right after the huge success of Belle de jour, is a collection of anti-church jokes packed with non sequiturs typical of his surreal years. “I think –he remembered in his memoirs referring to this film– that in the contemporary evolution of religion, Christ has slowly gained a privileged position in relation to the other two members of the Holy Trinity. There is only talk about him. God father still exists, but he is vague, distant. As for the Holy Spirit, no one cares for him and is begging in the streets.”

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