Milky Way (La Voie Lactée) Criterion DVD

• 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono (French)
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Video introduction by screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
• New video interview with film scholar Ian Christie
• Theatrical trailer
• More!
• PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by Carlos Fuentes and Mark Polizzotti, and a reprinted interview with Luis Buñuel

Director: Luis Buñuel
Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Alain Cuny, Delphine Seyrig, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley

The first of what Luis Bunuel later proclaimed a trilogy (along with The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty) about "the search for truth," The Milky Way (La voie lactee) daringly deconstructs contemporary and traditional views on Catholicism with ribald, rambunctious surreality. Two French beggars, present-day pilgrims en route to Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela, serve as Bunuel's narrators for an anticlerical history of heresy, told with absurdity and filled with images that rank among Bunuel's most memorable (stigmatic children, crucified nuns) and hilarious (Jesus considering a good shave). A diabolically entertaining look at the mysteries of fanaticism, The Milky Way remains a hotly debated work from cinema's greatest skeptic.