Two drifters (Paul Frankeur and Laurent Terzieff) go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way , they beg for food a man (Alain Cuny) with cape , hitchhike, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages . Both of whom meet up with Jesus (Bernard Verley) showing off his abilities , Virgin Mary (Edith Scob) doing miracles , and the Marquis de Sade (Michel Piccoli) who is with a young girl in chains , a prostitute (Delphine Seyrig) and also Satan (Pierre Clementi) who appears during a car accident . This is a typical Buñuel film , as there are a lot of symbolism and surrealism , including mockery or wholesale review upon religion, especially Catholicism . Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both subversive behavior and religion , issues well shown in Milky way . Here Buñuel makes an implacable attack to the Catholic church , theme that would preoccupy Buñuel for the rest of his career . Interesting and thought-provoking screenplay from the same Luis Buñuel and Jean Claude Carriere , Buñuel's usual screenwriter . After returning his native country, Spain, by making Viridiana this film was prohibited on the grounds of blasphemy as well as The milky way or Via Lactea , both of them were strongly prohibited by Spanish censorship . The stories in La Voie Lactée, (1969) are based on real historical episodes . Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière did extensive research for the film, primarily in the Dictionary of Heresies by Abbé Pluquet. It is packed with surreal moments , criticism , absurd situations and religious elements about Catholic Church ; furthermore Buñuel satirizes and he carries out outright attacks to religious lifestyle and Christian liturgy . According to his autobiography, My Last Sight , Luis Buñuel got the idea of making the film after reading , Historia De Heterodoxos Españoles , by Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo. Pretty good cast gives fine acting ; it is mostly formed by nice French actors such as Alain Cuny as Man with cape , Edith Scob as Virgin Mary , Bernard Verley as Jesus, Julien Bertheau as Hotel Maitre and Michel Piccoli as Marquis Sade , Pierre Clementi as Devil and Claudio Brook as Bishop .The motion picture was compellingly directed by Luis Buñuel who was voted the 14th Greatest Director of all time . This Buñuel's strange film belongs to his French second period ; in fact , it's plenty of known French actors . As Buñuel subsequently emigrated from Mexico to France where filmed other excellent movies . After moving to Paris , at the beginning Buñuel did a variety of film-related odd jobs , including working as an assistant to director Jean Epstein . With financial help from his mother and creative assistance from Dalí, he made his first film , this 17-minute "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), and immediately catapulted himself into film history thanks to its disturbing images and surrealist plot . The following year , sponsored by wealthy art patrons, he made his first picture , the scabrous witty and violent "Age of Gold" (1930), which mercilessly attacked the church and the middle classes, themes that would preoccupy Buñuel for the rest of his career . That career, though, seemed almost over by the mid-1930s, as he found work increasingly hard to come by and after the Spanish Civil War , where he made Las Hurdes , as Luis emigrated to the US where he worked for the Museum of Modern Art and as a film dubber for Warner Bros . He subsequently went on his Mexican period he teamed up with producer Óscar Dancigers and after a couple of unmemorable efforts shot back to international attention with the lacerating study of Mexican street urchins in Los Olvidados (1950), winning him the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival. But despite this new-found acclaim, Buñuel spent much of the next decade working on a variety of ultra-low-budget films, few of which made much impact outside Spanish-speaking countries , though many of them are well worth seeking out . As he went on filming "The Great Madcap" , The brute, "Wuthering Heights", El , "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo De la Cruz" , Robinson Crusoe , Death in the garden and many others . And finally his French-Spanish period in collaboration with producer Serge Silberman and writer Jean-Claude Carrière with notorious as well as polemic films such as Viridiana , Tristana , The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" and his last picture , "That Obscure Object of Desire" .
the church under the milky way torrent
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