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| The Naked Pilgrim - Road To Santiago | 
 enlarge | Director: Steven Green
Actor: Brian Sewell
Studio: Wag TV
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 8702
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Exempt
Running Time: 144 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060081370015
ASIN: B0001RVMCM
Release Date: May 3, 2004
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 Great TV June 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Funny, poignant, touching, insightful: there are just so many adjectives to describe Brian Sewell's wonderful visual account of his journey down to Santiago. Yes, it is a touch whimsical and introspective at times - but this is precisely what makes Sewell's travelogue so appealing. If you are looking for a flavourless, purely objective, bone-dry, un-judgemental account of the journey to Santiago, then please look elsewhere.If, however, you are looking for a superb piece of television by a scrupulously honest and self-critical art historian, then this is for you.
 Presenter centred travelogue May 28, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Another review I read describes the first impression of the narrator as a self-important fool. Unfortunately, this was my continued impression. Instead of showing the historic buildings and achitecture, for a lot of the time the camera showed the narrator looking at something, and wittering away without showing the viewer what it was that was so interesting. we gave up before the end. Very disappointing
Essential viewing May 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
He starts the trip expactant of boozy, long lunches but gradually finds the whole thing a good deal more arresting. Whilst Sewell does find the time to drink some half-decent claret, rough young Spanish wine, to indulge in corizo and jigot of mutton and insult unsuspecting members of the general public, he also finds himself unaccountably moved. He goes in Churches, but is no longer of the Church. He appreciates their architecture when appropriate, and also appropriate spatial design within them, but is no longer prone to use them for purposes of worship. Inevitable contact with 'proper' pilgrims along the journey, however, seems almost to tug at his very heart-strings. There is the bald, vigorous West Country cycling pilgrim, whose recounting of his favourite sad Pilgrim tale is unforgivably hacked to pieces by the editing process; there are 2 cheerful Northern lasses in Lourdes; there is even a Scandanavian who happens at the same time to be celebrating his 50th Birthday (obviously not content, unlike most, with a gift of a new pair of socks). At times the whole thing verges on the farsical - He attempts, when in Spain, to go fishing, but soon finds himself vomiting over the side of the boat, as the onlooking fishermen find it impossible to control their laughter. Is there something allegorical here, this episode coming, as it does, in hot pursuit of Sewell's declamation that the fish is the primordial Christian symbol? The very next day Sewell reaps revenge, as he now becomes spectator to a gushing, town-ravaging flood. He calmly walks down the lake that is now the main thoroughfare, umbrella nonchelantly askew, as the poor townspeople scramble to save what is left of their wordly posessions. By the end, he seems to hit a spiritual crisis point, breaking down in tears in the Cathedral at Saint-Iago. On a storm-tossed beech, he then strips mother-naked and rushes headlong into the waiting sea, enveloped by the onrushing waves. It is a series charged, charged with emotion, charged with humour and there is also the possibility of actually learning something.
Documentary at its best October 26, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an astonishing documentary, it is both funny and profound. His cynicism is spectacular and he meets his match at the door of Compostel Cathedral. The snippets and the people are brilliant. It starts at the sea and finishes on a Spanish beach, very funny, very thoughtful very moving. Get it!
Sewell Supreme June 5, 2006
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
Brian Sewells take on life, art and the human condition is truly captivating. He should be canonised and elected supreme leader.
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