TY - BOOK AU - Luis Buñuel AU - Luis Buñuel AU - Jean-Claude Carrière AU - Paul Frankeur AU - Laurent Terzieff AU - Alain Cuny TI - La voie lactée: The Milky Way AV - PN1997 .V654 1969 PY - 1969/// CY - France, Italy PB - Greenwich Film Productions, Fraia Film N1 - Special feature includes: - Buñuel, Atheist Thanks to God Documentary - Interview with Jean-Claude Carrière - Critical Analysis by Professor Peter W. Evans N2 - From case cover: Religious pilgrims Pierre (Paul Frankeur) and Jean (Laurent Terzieff) journey to a shrine in the north of Spain. Their faith is severely tested by some of the irreverent characters they confront in the course of their pilgrimage. Even chance meetings with Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and the Devil are not quite what Pierre and Jean have been prepared for in their religious training. One of the most challenging and irreverent of the director's later works, The Milky Way also continues Buñuel's ongoing disdain of Roman Catholicism. Funny, intelligent and sardonic, its availability will be justly celebrated by Buñuel enthusiasts. ; From IMDb: 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 ER -