[Gocamino] [saintjames] NY pilgrims, other

Tue May 25 22:56:40 PDT 2010

I ordered it from this website:
www.*thesurgeonandthesaint*.com/<http://www.thesurgeonandthesaint.com/>
Or, you can email Gino at ginodelg at mac.com
Hufs,Sil

On 25 May 2010 22:08, Johnnie Walker <johnniewalker-santiago at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Sil - where is it available please?
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sil <sillydoll at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 20:05:21
> To: <saintjames at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [saintjames] NY pilgrims, other
>
> Hi Rosina,
> This afternoon I posted this review of the film on the
> Pilgrimage-to-Santiago forum!
>
> *I have seen a lot of camino films, some good and some just OK.
> Last week I watched one of the most honest films I've ever seen on the
> camino. It is called The Surgeon and the Saint and I think every wanna be
> pilgrim should watch it - especially those who are not really fit but think
> they'll get by once they start walking.
> The surgeon is a 70+ year-old man, not very religious, not very fit, who
> decides to walk the camino to give thanks for his career and for his
> family.
> Even though he is a man of science, he is also hoping for a miracle - his
> newest grandchild was born with a mental and muscular disorder and has been
> given almost no hope of ever walking.
> The surgeon invites an estranged son to walk with him and another son, a
> documentary film maker, goes along to record the pilgrimage.
> The filming is sometimes jerky and amateurish but, it is fascinating to
> observe the interaction between father and sons and how the father starts
> off in control, with high expectations. He has made his plans and they must
> fall in line! It is even more fascinating to see how the camino teaches
> everyone a lesson.
> This film is only 56 minutes long but it packed more into it than most
> films
> twice as long.*
> I also wrote to Gino in response to his request for suggestions and
> comments
> on the film.  I said:
>
> * My only comment is that time wise the film is a bit lopsided!  *
> *The first three or four days take up almost 40 minutes of the film, and
> the
> last two weeks are squashed into 16 minutes.
> It would have been nice to have seen more of the last 90 miles and also, it
> would have been nice to see you enter the square, see the Parador (that was
> calling to your father!) and see a bit more of you in Santiago.*
> **
> My husband watched the film with me and said that of all the dvds we've
> seen, this was the best.
>
> un abrazo,
> Sil
> * *
>
>
>
> On 25 May 2010 21:04, Rosina <Blaroli at aol.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello you all,
> > From time to time a group of New York City Santiago pilgrims get together
> > at someone's place, or a restaurant, etc. We reminisce about the Camino,
> > exchange information, books, videos, see photos, gossip, and so on.
> > At our meeting last week we went to a Galician restaurant very
> conveniently
> > located across the street from where I live. After dinner we went to my
> > place to continue conversing and enjoying some fine albarinho. A couple
> of
> > the attendees had read about the video "The Saint and the Surgeon" in a
> > newspaper, and when I mentioned that I had it we proceeded to watch it
> (it
> > is only about an hour long). It was the second viewing for me, and I
> liked
> > it more than the first time I saw it. But what impressed me were the
> > comments of the others who watched it, particularly the males; they
> > commented about the delicacy, and intricacy, of the relationship between
> an
> > older, strong, successful father and his grown sons (which totally
> escaped
> > me the first time I saw the video); the guys just talked and talked about
> it
> > while the video was playing and afterwards. . Also, and much to my
> surprise,
> > they agreed with the comments made, in the video, by a solitary older
> male
> > pilgrim that "albergues are very fine except for the women in them" (!).
> I
> > would have never guessed that having to cover oneself would be such a
> > bother.
> > Those who saw the video at my place thought it visually beautiful and
> much
> > different from most Santiago videos. A couple of the viewers voiced what
> I
> > had thought the first time I saw it: that the immediacy of the
> presentation
> > actually produces one of those "you are there" sensations. In fact, two
> > people expressed what I felt the first time I saw it: tingling on the
> feet,
> > general leg-pains and physical bitter-sweet Camino-tiredness.
> > But again, the most distinctive impression made upon the male viewers was
> > related to the two sons (one of them is the filmmaker) as they
> accompanied,
> > not altogether willingly, their strong-willed father, in his seventies,
> in
> > an arduous and almost impossible undertaking that they couldn't
> understand,
> > and didn't, until the very end.
> >
> > Tomorrow night I'm going to Santiago for the Memorial Day weekend. While
> > there last January, for the opening of the Holy Door, I offered to spend
> a
> > month there this summer as a "volunteer"; while what I would be doing was
> > not specified, my friends told me that they would find "something" for me
> to
> > do. Well, from what I'm told, they have enough volunteers to last them a
> > lifetime, and I expect that the last thing my friends need is to have to
> > bother with me. Nevertheless, I did promise, and the least I can do is go
> > and find out whether I can be of some use in July or so...... you never
> > know.
> > Meanwhile, If there is anything that I may get for you while there, or
> > inquire about, please let me know; I'll be back next week.
> >
> > Hugs!
> >
> > Rosina
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Sil
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