[Gocamino] "Within the Way Without" DVD

[Blaroli@aol.com]

Hi,
I don't know whether the British DVD is Pal or NSTC.  It doesn't specify the 
zone, but I just put it on a regular USA DVD player and it plays all right. It 
could be that an NTSC version was sent to me because it was coming to New 
York City, or it could be a "0" zone one (?) that plays in all systems. 
After showing the Brasilian would-be-pilgrim's collection of Camino 
postcards, the film  starts out with the Dutch pilgrim on top of the Pyrenees, in the 
magnificent fog, calling him   "Winter Pilgrim", then it cuts to the fellow 
train-running alongside the canals of what looks a lot like the "red zone" in 
Amsterdam.  Then comes the Brasilian in either Rio or Sao Paulo wondering if her 
need to go on the Camino signifies incipient madness; and then the Japanese 
poet getting her credential in Roncesvalles. (I think that the Brasilian pilgrim 
went on the spring and the Japanese one during summer).
As the Brasilian negotiated the Pyrenees she comes across the memorial Cross 
built in memory of that Brasilian pilgrim who died up there and was buried in 
the snow a couple of Januarys ago.  (You'll remember that his wife and family 
searched for him for weeks, until his red backpack was spotted under the snow 
by another pilgrim; you'll also remember that after taking her husband's  body 
home to Rio his wife came back to complete "his" Camino). The reflections of 
the Brasilian pilgrim on the DVD when she comes across her dead compatriot's 
memorial stone Cross are unbearably poignant.
I won't tell you anymore about the film, other than to assure you that 
regardless of age, gender, religion or  nationality, there will not be a pilgrim who 
won't cherish it. Let me tell you that some "martinis-at-six New Yorkers" 
friends of mine who couldn't begin to conceive why anyone half rational would 
walk hundreds of miles across a foreign country, not sure of where the next bed, 
or meal, would be found, (let alone vermouth, vodka and olives) and carrying 
all her/his  on her/his back, began training, purchasing backpacks, boots, 
etc., after seeing the DVD.

Regards,

Rosina