Conceived by Luis Buñuel with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, The Milky Way is a rambling journey of two pilgrims traveling from France to Spain, along the path to Camino de Santiago, the holy resting place of St. James.
“Mike Nichols said he thought of Buñuel everyday, and so do I. His films are his personality, and his stream of consciousness seems to be an endless source of mesmerizing and comical poetry. He had anarchy deep in his personality. The Buñuel tone is somehow always exquisite and perfect. Liesl’s religiousness in part takes its inspiration from Buñuel. Catholicism is woven into every Buñuel movie; somehow, it’s one of the threads, and sometimes it’s most of the threads.” – Wes Anderson