3 Caminos – Our Review

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Across 8 episodes, the series tells the story of 5 people from different nationalities – Spanish Raquel, Mexican Roberto, Italian Luca, Korean Yun Su, and German Jana – who meet on the Camino de Santiago and become friends, each carrying their own story, traumas, vulnerabilities and strengths, dreams and fears.

What makes this series powerful, and indeed gives the production its title, “3 Caminos,” is that it shows this group of friends walking the Camino at 3 different stages of their lives: the first time in 2000, when they meet, the second time in 2006, and the third time in 2021.

As the years pass and we live new experiences, we all change, reshaping our worldview, our relationships with others, our priorities and perspectives.

Those of us who, like those at A Piedi per il Mondo, have walked many different routes and repeatedly returned to the same ones, know that each time is a different experience, because it's the eyes with which we see the world that are new every single day!

The 3 Caminos series has another great merit: masterfully portraying the friendships forged on the road and the dynamics of human relationships – the idea of always being there for one another while simultaneously giving each person the freedom and space they need.

Every pilgrim experiences this presence and absence on the Camino, this intermittence, this elastic effect.

Beyond these positive aspects, I feel the emotional weight and drama of certain storylines make the series quite heavy. There's a real lack of lightness and levity.

We practically cried from beginning to end.

Not a single laugh.

From personal experience, you do meet people on the Camino with extraordinary stories – we've met many among those who travelled with us in group pilgrimages – but you encounter far more people with ordinary lives, without tragedy defining their journey.

And the Camino itself, as a physical route, has been sacrificed. Not only are entire stretches of the path forgotten, but the series fails to capture the true sense of time and duration on the walk.

If I didn't already know that the French Way lasts a month and spans 800km, I would never understand that from watching the series. There's never a moment where you feel the exhaustion of a daily stage or the physical fatigue.

It's true – these aren't the things you remember years later – but they're part of the daily reality of the walk and they shape your experience there.

Despite these criticisms, this is a moving series with outstanding cinematography that's absolutely worth watching!

And as Iván Ferreiro and Andrés Suárez sing in the song specially written for this project...

No se puede explicar, no se puede contar. El Camino me llama...

So far the 3 Caminos series has been distributed to 240 countries, while in Italy, Germany, Mexico and South Korea, the countries where the main characters originate, it will be distributed by different production companies.

We'll see when it becomes available... Living in Spain as we do, we managed to watch it through Amazon Prime Video

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