Released on: 1991
Rating: 6.30
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The Way — review
Back in 1968 Buсuel's The Milky Way (aka La Voie Lactйe) followed two clochards as they make the 780km pilgrimage from the Pyrenees to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, encountering en route representatives of various Catholic mysteries and heresies. It was entertainingly irreligious, if at times (at least to non-Catholics) somewhat puzzling. Emilio Estevez's sentimental, well-intentioned, inspirational film follows the same route. A widowed Californian optician (played by Estevez's father Martin Sheen) attempts to get in touch with his estranged son, who was killed in a storm just as he began the pilgrimage. Instead of taking the son's ashes home, he decides to scatter them along the way to Santiago, during which time he bonds with a trio of garrulous fellow pilgrims: blocked Irish travel writer James Nesbitt, ageing Dutch hippie Yorick van Wageningen and bruised Canadian divorcee Deborah Kara Unger. It looks good, is occasionally touching,»
- Philip French
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Neil Jordan Will Direct Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton in Vampire Story ‘Byzantium’
Is Saoirse Ronan the latest young talent to be cloned so that she can be attached to many projects at once? That appears to be the case. She's already scheduled for The Host [1], may be in Joe Wright's Anna Karenina [2] and Emma Thompson's Effie [3], and the latest is a film called Byzantium, a 'mother-daughter' vampire tale co-starring Gemma Arterton that Neil Jordan will direct.The news (out of Cannes, natch -- this weekend is going to be flooded with reports like this, just as the last few days have been) is that the film is based on an original script by Moira Buffini, who scripted [4] the recent version of Jane Eyre, and is about "a mother vampire who turns her own daughter into a vampire and the pair form a lethal partnership, sometimes posing as sisters." The script is based on her own play A Vampire Story, and»
- Russ Fischer
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