[Gocamino] Camino movie with Martin Sheen

[Robert Spenger]

I  find it interesting that Muxia is apparently the ultimate destination in this film. There was a time, a few years ago, when there were warnings on a camino forum about pilgrims who were denied their compostelas because they admitted to planning to go on to Fisterra. It seemed, at the time, that there was someone, high up in the pilgrim office, who took a dim view of pilgrims who were going all the way to the coast and it was regarded as a pagan pursuit. I haven't heard anything about this for a long time now, and I met a sizable number of people making this trip last year, so perhaps the pilgrim office has backed off from that attitude.

One thing puzzles me about the film. There seems to be a scene in which the protagonist has to brave a raging stream to retrieve his pack. I realize that it was put in to give the film a little more drama, but where would this be? Except for a stream crossing that forced me to make a detour on the GR653 in France many years ago, I don't remember being near enough to such a river to have that sort of hazard, certainly not on the camino francés.

Bob S.


On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Rosina wrote:

Hello you all,

You can see snippets of the Emilio Estevez movie "The Way" starring his father, the popular and much esteemed actor Martin Sheen, by going to:

http://www.theway-themovie.com/          

Rosina[