Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.
Although produced in the similar surrealist anecdotal style as his 70s masterpieces, this Bunuel movie is fraught with puzzling allusions to theological theorems and clerical doctrines (probably intended as the "milky way"), but is nevertheless still mildly entertaining.
Halliwell*: "A picaresque examination of Catholic doctrine, full of surface interest but requiring special knowledge for full apprciation."
Maltin***1/2: "...string of Bunuel "jokes," parables, surealistic visions. Heretical, funny, haunting, thoroughly enjoyable."
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