About a brilliant eleven-year-old girl who must face two rather significant events in her life simultaneously--falling in love and dying. Despite the challenges ahead of her, Camino manages to shine bright and overcome the darkness that tries to stifle her desire to live, love and seek ultimate happiness.
Though respectful and subdued when the story requires, Fesser's ironic touch manages to extract humour from a dire situation and in the process, skewer organised religion and its propagation of false hope.
People critical of Opus Dei will find much to justify their view in the film. But people who have great faith will also find much to nourish them. Javier Fesser has been very clever.
And you thought "The Da Vinci Code" had an unsettling view on religion. Dan Brown's work is kid's stuff. "Camino"´s message can be either life (or love, at least) affirming or very nihilistic, depending on one's interpretation (most will probably veer toward the latter). This not at all subtle movie scared me in ways
that no horror film could have.
Although the story is hard but sweet and hearth touching at the same time, and the acting is excellent... I couldn't stand the Mother (played by Carme ElÃas) is way too much.
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