Ying Ruocheng Lama Norbu. Jigme Kunsang Champa. Raju Lal Raju. Greishma Makar Singh Gita. Khyongla Rato Rinpoche Abbot. Sogyal Rinpoche Kenpo Tensin. Thupten Kalsang Sanjay. Doma Tshomo Ani-La. Jo Champa Maria. Bernardo Bertolucci Director. Bernardo Bertolucci Screenwriter.
Rudy Wurlitzer Screenwriter. Mark Peploe Screenwriter. Jeremy Thomas Producer. Ryuichi Sakamoto Original Music. Vittorio Storaro Cinematographer.
Pietro Scalia Film Editor. Daniele Sordoni Film Editor. Fabrizio Castellani Casting. Howard Feuer Casting. Priscilla John Casting. James Acheson Production Design. Gianni Giovagnoni Art Direction. Bruno Cesari Set Decoration. James Acheson Costume Designer. Com Full Review… John A. Com Full Review… Susan Granger www. View All Critic Reviews Sep 16, Lama Norbu and his fellow monks believe they have found a candidate of Dorje's rebirth within a boy named Jesse Conrad Alex Wiesendanger in Seattle.
While Jesse is fascinated with the monks and their way of life, his parents, Dean Chris Isaak and Lisa Bridget Fonda , are wary, and that wariness turns into near-hostility when Norbu announces that he would like to take Jesse back with him to Bhutan to be tested. Jesse's father changes his mind however, after one of his close friends and colleagues commits suicide, seeming to realize that there could be more to life than work and money.
He then decides to go to Bhutan with his son. In the story, the Lama Norbu relates Buddha's life story, which is also enacted as a story line within the movie. In this depiction, a Hindu prince called Siddhartha Keanu Reeves sets on a journey to achieve greater awareness. As he progresses, he learns profound truths about the nature of life, consciousness, and reality. Ultimately, he battles Mara a demon representing the ego , who repeatedly tries to divert and destroy Siddhartha.
Through concentrated non-attachment and final realization of the illusory nature of his own ego, Siddhartha attains enlightenment. In the end, it is found that all three children are rebirths of the Lama Dorje, separate manifestations of his body Raju , speech Gita , and mind Jesse.
A ceremony is held and Jesse's father also learns the facts about Buddhism. Lama Dorje's rebirth represents the three most important aspects of life. His work finished, Lama Norbu enters a deep state of meditation and dies of his own will. As the funeral ceremony begins Lama Norbu speaks to the children, seemingly from a higher plane, telling them to have compassion. Just before the credits roll the children are seen distributing his ashes in various places.
At the very end of the film credits, the sand mandala that was seen being constructed during the movie is destroyed, "with one swift stroke. Martin D Super Reviewer. Dec 15, Honestly I started to burst out laughing whenever Keanu spoke, it was pretty bad.
Other than that I thought the story was interesting, and cute. I thought that it would have been more heavy handed, but it was quite passive in it's views of the world which I found refreshing. Marion R Super Reviewer. Dec 12, Ultimately this fell flat for me. I was more interested in the segements relating Siddhartha's story than in any of the modern day goings on, even if Keanu Reeves seems to mainly be in the film to look pretty which his delivery of lines suggests.
Kylie B Super Reviewer. Jan 29, I watched this film in my religion class for the first time, and it was enough for me. However, I do give it credit for staying biblically correct to the religion!
KJ P Super Reviewer. See all Audience reviews. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. Best Horror Movies. Worst Superhero Movies. Best Netflix Series and Shows. Go back. More trailers.
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Thubtem Jampa Punzo as Punzo. Surekha Sikri Sonali as Sonali. Lama Sangay as Sangay. Mantu Lal Mantu as Mantu. Bernardo Bertolucci. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Jesse's father, Dean Chris Isaak , and mother, Lisa Bridget Fonda , are dubious, but following his business partner's suicide, a transformed Dean relents and allows his son to travel to Bhutan.
However, there are two other children who the monk thinks may also be the reincarnation of Lama Dorje. A magical journey to a place where the past and the present meet. Rated PG for some disturbing images. Did you know Edit. Trivia In January , three years after this movie was released, a four-year-old boy from Seattle actually was chosen as the reincarnation of beloved Lama Deschund Rinpochet, and relocated to Nepal, to be groomed as a spiritual teacher.
Goofs When Raju is playing with the Game Boy you can hear music from Tetris, but it's actually not turned on at all. Quotes Lama Norbu : [Narrating] One day Siddhartha heard an old musician on a passing boat speaking to his people.
Crazy credits At the very end of the credits, there is a shot of a hand wiping away the sand of the mandala. Mandalas are brushed away at some point after completion to symbolize Impermanence, one of the tenets of Buddhism.
User reviews Review. Top review. Simplistic, but not bad and educationally useful. Simplistic, and of more value to young people than serious adults, but a more "realistic" dramatization of the subject might be too subtle for many viewers. This is perhaps the only movie I know of that deals directly with Buddhism from a western point of view, as opposed to Asian movies like those of Kurosawa, or such recent films as "Seven Years in Tibet" which deal more with the political and social aspects of Tibetan culture rather than Buddhism itself.
Because Buddhism is drawing increasing interest in the West, a dramatization of the classic story of the Buddha is useful and entertaining. As a high school teacher, I have seriously recommended this film to students a number of times.
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