A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

The drifters Pierre (Paul Frankeur) and Jean (Laurent Terzieff) pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain hitchhiking and begging for food. Along their journey, they face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.I have seen most of Buñuel films and this director is among my favorites. The master of the surrealism uses Catholic symbols in his films fruit of his strict religious education among the Jesuits. Unfortunately "La Voie Lactée" is an unfunny and boring mess since I can not laugh with jokes with any religion. For me, this is the worst film of Buñuel's filmography so far. My vote is two.Title (Brazil): "Via Láctea" ("Milky Way")

There are two Bunuels: the cheeky Bunuel who makes movies filled with blatant symbolism and surrealism attacking religion and sexuality, and the narrative Bunuel, who makes more subtle films which approach these same issues in more mature ways.The first Bunuel, the Bunuel of L'Age D'Or and Un Chien Andalou, was definitely at work on this project. The coherent narratives of Los Olivados, Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, Exterminating Angel or even Discrete Charm of the Bourgoise.Bunuel loved ambiguity and abstraction. He loved making people feel uncertain of things in all his movies - yet many of them maintain a serene, smooth surface nonetheless - there may be dream sequences in them, and things out of the ordinary happening, yet they don't jump around in the madcap way this movie and L'Age D'Or do, constantly making the viewer adjust to a new scene with seemingly no relation to the last, which is afterwards resolved when the pilgrims appear and reinstate continuity.The two pilgrim characters are our tour guides through a patchwork of historical vignettes involving important religious events.The highlight of the film for me was when a priest is talking to a man and a woman through a locked door, locked on the advice of the innkeeper presumably to keep the chaplin from coming into their rooms and preaching to them, and the chaplin is talking to them about how Mary could have given birth and remained a virgin. He thinks of an example of this: like light coming through a window. Bunuel cuts from the priest sitting outside the room to the couple inside the room, and suddenly the priest is sitting inside the room talking to he couple. In the next shot, he is outside, and the following shot, inside again. A superb example of cinematic irony.I'm actually not quite sure what i thought of the film - its certainly not among my favourite Bunuels (Discrete Charm of the Bourgoisie, Exterminating Angel, Los Olivados, L'Age D'Or), but its the sort of film that clearly rewards repeat viewings. As another reviewer commented, a knowledge of religious history reaped rich rewards from it, which makes me wish i knew a little more than i did.Clifford's Commendations: Like with any Bunuel film, if you're christian, and you get it, you won't like it! If you're not christian, it'll help if you know some christian history to get all the laughs and satire on offer. Without this knowledge, from personal experience, the film has fruits to offer, but you won't enjoy it as much as many other Bunuels.

It is very strange movie but very interesting. The reality mixed with the biblical stories and historical events. The most beautiful moment of the movie is the spanish priest who tells the story of one Virgin Mother's wonder. However it shows Benuel's relation to catholic religion - of course sometimes - funny and odd - but it worth to watch it.

I really wanted to like this movie, really. But about half way through it I realized that I genuinely hated it. It is dull, unfocused, boring, pretentious, heavy-handed, and overwrought. Bunuel constantly drives his distaste for the Catholic Church into the viewer over and over and it gets old really fast. Its not even entertaining either.It's bad, boring, pointless surrealism. The surrealistic moments are fatuous and dont have any deeper undercurrent of meaning like most good ones do. Go straight to Jodorowsky or for a better Bunuel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie.