The Way

Dionysus

I'm off to walk a camino again in a month or so and I'm wondering where Martin Sheen's The Way will be on in Dublin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hy54CpKeqk

According to the girl in the Lighthouse cinema in Smithfield it was supposed to open there on 13 May. Obviously that's not going to happen. The IFI is, at this stage, also not showing it (a quick phonecall a moment ago clarified that).

Anybody know where in Dublin it will be on?

OutlawPete

Dionysus wrote: »

Anybody know where in Dublin it will be on?

The Screen will be showing it from May 13th (I'd say many other Cinemas will also).

Seen the premiere in Dublin (Savoy) where Martin Sheen received a career achievement Volta award from JDIFF and was lucky enough to get to have a brief chat with Emilio Estevez too

It's an excellent film by the way, loved every second of it and is one of those films you just won't want to end.

Dionysus

OutlawPete wrote: »

The Screen will be showing it from May 13th (I'd say many other Cinemas will also).

Seen the premiere in Dublin (Savoy) where Martin Sheen received a career achievement Volta award from JDIFF and was lucky enough to get to have a brief chat with Emilio Estevez too

It's an excellent film by the way, loved every second of it and is one of those films you just won't want to end.

Excellent, Pete. Surprising but great news to hear it will be on.

roboshatner

I thought the lighthouse cinema was closed down.

Film does sounds good but not seen the trailer for it.

Dionysus wrote: »

I'm off to walk a camino again in a month or so and I'm wondering where Martin Sheen's The Way will be on in Dublin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hy54CpKeqk

According to the girl in the Lighthouse cinema in Smithfield it was supposed to open there on 13 May. Obviously that's not going to happen. The IFI is, at this stage, also not showing it (a quick phonecall a moment ago clarified that).

Anybody know where in Dublin it will be on?

Dionysus

Right this minute RTÉ Radio 1 (Miriam Meets) is airing an interview which Miriam O'Callaghan made with Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez in February 2011. They are talking about The Way:


http://www.rte.ie/radio1/miriammeets/

Catcher7791

It's opening at the IFI on May 13 too. I was at the DIFF screening, thought it was very good.

Tenente

The Way is now showing in a number of Dublin Cinemas including The Irish Film Institute. See below link for listings:

http://entertainment.ie/movie_review/The-Way/7440.htm#**********

Beun Camino peregrino. Go n-eirí an camino leat.

Tenente.

ammw

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone knows the name of the fancy hotel that's in the end of the film "The Way"? Doing the camino this year and I wanna stay there at the end of the trek...

Thanks!

Aero28

I went to see it last night. What a fantastic movie. I loved every second of it. The soundtrack is really good too. I can't wait to walk the Camino someday soon.What a journey!

the whole year inn

This looks like a good movie,will def check it out,thanks op.

paulosham

How come the way is only a few hundred miles but the way back is thousands?

If you do the camino I recommend the Camino del norte, it's amazing.

Tenente

ammw wrote: »

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone knows the name of the fancy hotel that's in the end of the film "The Way"? Doing the camino this year and I wanna stay there at the end of the trek...

Thanks!

I'm not sure which fancy hotel was featured in the film The Way but the Parador de los Reis Catolicos de Santiago de Compostela is very fancy (and very very expensive) spot in Santiago right beside the Cathedral itself.

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g187508-d195761-Reviews-Parador_de_los_Reis_Catolicos_de_Santiago_de_Compostela-Santiago_de_Compostela_A_Coruna_Province_Galicia.html

Dionysus

Just back from watching it in the IFI tonight.

Very good, even if the camino was portrayed as being far more dramatic, lively and sociable than when I walked it last summer. It represented three of the four main peregrino (pilgrims) as being nuts and unstable which was mildly unsettling even if entertaining (except for the cringeworthy miserable life story of the woman - fast forward!).

There were some wonderful moments overlooked by Estévez. For instance, in the 12th-century albergue (hostel) in Roncesvalles, which was shown at the start, in real life all 120 of us peregrino were awoken by an elderly man (a monk?) singing gregorian chant on the dot of 6am. It was absolutely extraordinary hearing his voice echo through the large stone building, this is the inside of it.

Being woken up at 6am to Gregorian chant at the foothills of the Pyrennes is something that lives in the memory for a long time. That's probably my best of many memories of the camino as being something very special.

Some other things: the rucksacks used by the key actors were massive. Most people doing all 800km would bring less than 10kg, not what looked like 20kg or 30kg. Also, they seemed to have a lot of clothes on them for Spain - the big coats alone would weigh too much in the Spanish heat. Another thing, in real life it's more normal to arrive at your destination albergue in early afternoon, when you'll avoid the worst heat of the sun and not late at night as happened in The Way.

More importantly, I think Estévez could have balanced all the (far too many) sociable moments with periods of individual reflection with some well-chosen music (on this point, the soundtrack was overall quite good). Finally, while you will meet many of the same people at various times on the Camino it's more normal to walk for a day or two with somebody and go your own way as it's your thing. Walking all 800km with three strangers (or even three people you know very well) would be way too much! In my experience it's bad form to pry (as happened in the film) about reasons people walk the Camino or to infringe upon the personal space of other peregrinos/peregrinas. That unspoken rule is one of the many great aspects of the camino.

Then again it was only a film so I'll lighten up. It's well worth seeing, so well done to Estevéz. I will buy it on dvd.