Martin SHEEN / Emilio's "The Way" -

[UTUSN]

An elderly, very Catholic relative wanted me to find out when/whether this was already in theaters or what. Usually IMDb has enough info for me, but at the top of the site it says "Coming in October (no year)" while also showing a (completion?) date of 2010, and some of the reviews sound like it was distributed in Spring '11.

It's about the medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago de Campostelo (done now) and the reviews/interviews sound good, one saying it is Martin's greatest performance. I don't know whether the positivity is from the point of view of devout viewers or from movie buffs.

Martin and Emilio seem to be super in niceness, politics, and spirituality (Emilio/agnostic), but frankly, I like Charlie, too (there I go), yet it seems like "Bobby" got some nice/special interest reviews then slipped on to oblivion, which makes me wonder about *this* project.

Anybody perceiving question(s) here, please jump in!1 Thanks.


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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441912/
User Reviews

Understated and therefore very moving
3 May 2011 | by paulinewainwright (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews
This movie exceeded all expectations, which were already very high. All kudos to Emilio Estevez for an excellent screenplay and superb direction. The photography, too, was wonderful. I think this will go down as one of Martin Sheen's best ever performances. He underplays his role (due to Emilio's direction?) which makes it all the stronger. In fact, it's the understated quality of the whole film that makes it very moving. It never descends into sentimentality but you still feel the grief of Martin Sheen's character as he makes the pilgrimage his estranged dead son never completed. At the same time, there are a lot of funny moments, which lift it from becoming a depressing journey. The gradual coalescing of the four very different main characters into a unified group works very well. Each of them has a different reason for making the pilgrimage and, to begin with, they seem to have nothing in common, but it's still very believable when they start to relate to each other. Emilio and his father Martin have every reason to be very proud of this film. It works on every level.

An interview with SHEEN/Emilio: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8385806/The-Way-interview-with-Martin-Sheen-and-Emilio-Estevez.html

Another one: http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2010/09/18/sheen_estevez/index.html?CP=IMD&DN=110

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[romantico]

1. I

I saw Emilio on 'In The House with Peter Bart and Peter Guber' last summer and was curious when this film was coming out. From what I saw and hearing them discuss the film it sounded very good. Martin Sheen is a great actor and wish we'd see him do more films like this. Can't wait to see it.

[UTUSN]

3. Whups, the "Thanks" was clearly for you, the most estimable Romantico!1 n/t

[UTUSN]

2. Thanks! n/t

[romantico]

4. Trailer

Here is the trailer. Looks really good!

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

[sarge43]

6. It does.

I'll watch Martin Sheen read a telephone book. When he has a role worthy of him, I'm there.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. thanks for posting this. always been interested in Santiago de Campostelo

bkmrking to review in more detail later.

[indypaul]

7. Both Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez

will attend special screening of "The Way" at the Heartland
Film Festival in Indianapolis starting October 13. Dont know
about any specific schedule or tickets but local news article
gave www.trulymovingpictures.org as a site for tickets and
info about Heartland Festival,

[WolverineDG]

8. They're going to start rolling it out in October

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

The movie's homepage has the trailer.

I can't wait to see it.

dg