Kundun (Scorsese, 1997): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.30pm
This 35mm presentation also screens on Apri 21st and 27th and is part of the Martin Scorsese 90s season at the Prince Charles Cinema. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Recounting the life of the 14th Dalai Lama prior to his departure from
Tibet, this highly uncharacteristic feature by Martin Scorsese is his
best since The King of Comedy, but you can’t profitably approach it
expecting either the violence or the stylistic punchiness of something
like GoodFellas. Scripted by Melissa Mathison (in close consultation
with the Dalai Lama and his family) and cast almost exclusively with
Tibetan exiles, this nonreligious movie about a religious leader is
beautiful, abstract, charged with mystery, but never pretentious. Far
from dictating a position on the Dalai Lama, the film doesn’t even
define a particular point at which the spoiled toddler is transformed
into a holy man; a good deal of the historical, political, and religious
context is implied rather than explained, and most of the major events
occur offscreen. Despite the somewhat questionable wallpaper score by
Philip Glass, Scorsese’s delicate, inquisitive style has an
inevitability and a rightness all its own.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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