In the first installment of what director Luis Buñuel would later call a trilogy about “the search for truth,” The Milky Way is a deconstruction of the Catholic Church via Her heresies. Two French beggars attempt to panhandle along The Way of St. James (nicknamed “the Milky Way”), a pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. The duo seems not to notice when their journey breaks laws of time and space and they slide in and out of surrealist detours that explore the bizarre side of church history, blurring the line between tradition and heresy. – Jeremy Pair
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