Pilgrimages and Rite-of-Passage Trips in Four Iberoamerican Films

The paper deals with pilgrimages and movies. The topic of pilgrimage is an issue for very diverse disciplines and scientific approaches. Among other, anthropologists and geographers can positively make joint studies on the film representation of pilgrim and pilgrimages, which are sound expression of popular culture and its connections with space and place geographical concepts. Iberoamerican movies are a fertile field of research, allowing interpretation of identity, power subjugation, poverty, rebellion as well as acceptance of human pains through religion and religious festivals. After a theoretical framework, and literature brief review, the paper critically deals mainly with four Iberoamerican movies: the episode El Tuerto of the movie Roots by Benito Alazraki (1954), Talpa by Alfredo B. Crevenna (1956), The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by Tommy Lee Jones (2005), and Bajo California: El lìmite del tiempo by Carlos Bolado Muñoz (1998).