The Milky Way
- brisk
- surreal
- signature
Neutral, kinetic, measured surreal / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Our read · The Milky Way (1969) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal surreal · comedy · satire entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of The Milky Way
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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