Product Details

• Actors: Luis Bunuel
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Xenon Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: July 24, 1992
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302405718
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,186 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Joyful Romp Through Heresies Of The Ages, March 7, 2002

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Timothy Dougal (Madison, Wi United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Milky Way [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I agree with everything the other reviewer wrote. However, he did neglect to mention how FUNNY "The Milky Way" is. Even, the title is a bit of a kick, evoking as it does for Americans our galaxy and a candy bar, and which in the movie refers to the road to Santiago (St. James) de Campostella, where St. James is not buried! Theology students would really appreciate some of this, especially the sword-fight/theological debate. Get it. See it. Love it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bunuel's religious comedy, January 17, 2006

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Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Milky Way [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Bunuel's satirical exploration of the history of Catholicism. Two pilgrim tramps are on their way to a religious shrine in Spain when they become part of surrealistic episodes concerning Catholic heresies throughout the ages. Scenes change from modern times to the 1600s to the the time of the Inquisition to the time of Jesus in the blink of an eye, and no one bothers about it or even notices it. At times the movie comes across as an intellectual bull session on religious matters, but it moves along quickly and has enough humorous moments to keep the viewer interested and not bogged down in the verbiage. There are wonderful subtle touches throughout from the master director, visual images that are striking: the sword fight, the burning corpses, the priest at the bedroom door and then inside, to name a few. It's a late gem from Bunuel's repertoire, and definitely worth a watch.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Buñuelian irreverence!, June 7, 2005

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Milky Way [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Once more the prodigal son of Calanda makes a very intelligent and carefully satire, cynical and ironic gaze about the religion and its collateral implications when decides to make an extraordinary semblance about certain dogmatic incoherencies and insane behavior as the funny sequence in which Jesus decides to cut his hair but Maria avoids it as any fashion adviser, or the use of nut who assumes the role of a priest discussing about religion in a miserable bar through a true tour de force script. A road movie that will lead us to Santiago de Compostela and besides will interweave past and present where out of mind characters who will make you laugh and reflect. Not for squeamish tastes or sensible spirits.
A giant film along the way.