Kundun

This Martin Scorsese film drama detailing the Dalai Lama's life story was in development for seven years, with the Dalai Lama having input into the 14 screenplay drafts by Melissa Mathison (The Black Stallion, E.T.). With four actors portraying the Dalai Lama at different ages, Scorsese's chronicle ...more

Having already tackled religion with The Last Temptation of Christ, Scorsese turned his spiritual eye to Tibet. The screenplay by Melissa Mathison is almost fable-like in its structure. The young Dalai Lama is raised to be the spiritual leader of a country that will, for all practical purposes, cease to be while he is still a young man, having been annexed by the Chinese government. Scorsese's camerawork communicates the torment the Dalai Lama feels being in the middle of political arguments he ...more