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Kundun [Region 2]
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 3388334504843
Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: French (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0French (Subtitled),
Region Code: 2
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1997
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Editorial Review:
It would be a mistake to call Kundun a disappointment, or a film that director Martin Scorsese was not equipped to create. Both statements may be true to some viewers, but they ignore the higher purpose of Scorsese's artistic intention and take away from a film that is by any definition unique. In chronicling the life of the 14th Dalai Lama, Kundun defies conventional narrative in favor of an episodic approach, presenting a sequential flow of events from the life of the young leader of Buddhist Tibet. From the moment he is recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama in 1937 to his exile from Tibet in the wake of China's invasion, the Dalai Lama is seen as an enlightened spiritual figurehead. This gives the film its tone of serenity and reverence but denies us the privilege of admiring the Dalai Lama as a fascinating human character. There's a sense of mild detachment between the film and its audience, but its visual richness offers ample compensation. In close collaboration with cinematographer Roger Deakins, Scorsese filmed Kundun with great pageantry and ritual, and meticulous attention to details of costume, color, and the casting of actual Buddhist monks in the scenes at the Dalai Lama's palace. Certain images will linger in the memory for a long time, such as the Dalai Lama's nightmarish vision of standing among hundreds of dead monks, their lives sacrificed in pacifist defiance of Chinese aggression. Is this a film you'll want to watch repeatedly? Perhaps not. But as a political drama and an elegant gesture of devotion, Kundun is a film of great value and inspirational beauty--one, after all, that perhaps only Scorsese could have made. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - a romantic vision
The movie is a masterpiece concerning photography, design, scenery, etc. , But a bit too much romantic point of view of the old Tibet and the Tibetan Buddhism.
This is a nice movie to enjoy, but if you are really interrested in the biography and the real facts,I really advise to do your own researches concerning the facts which are described in the movie.
Rating:  - Beautiful
Underneath the beautiful art direction, costume design and great soundtrack lies a great film. I feel the director did a magnificent job creating the feelings and motivations of a boy growing up in very unusual circumstances.
Rating:  - Great movie
This movie is a masterpiece. It touches you on so many different levels. It certaily is not required that you be Buddhist to enjoy this film. It is funny and heart wrenching. A very sad and yet hopeful telling of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama's life from 1937-1959 when he fled Tibet for his saftey and to safe his country from communisum and Chairman Mao. It is one of the most memorable films that I have ever seen. I have watched it countless times and have shown it to many friends and family ... Read More
Rating: - Flawed, but beautiful and undeniably important
Martin Scorsese has created a visually stunning, mostly-accurate but otherwise extremely hagiographical view of the life of the Dalai Lama when he was discovered to be the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama to his flight from Tibet in 1959. Only one scene takes place in India and a few take place in China, though I am to understand that it was shot almost entirely in Morocco. Of course no movie can be filmed about the Dalai Lama in Chinese-controlled Tibet, but Scorsese manages to recreate the rich ... Read More
Rating: - Kundun
This is an excellent story of the early life of the Dalai Lama of Tibet, their Spiritual and Secular leader, and his escape from Tibet in 1959. He has lived in exile since then India, since the Chinese refuse to acknowledge that the Tibetans are not a part of China. They have destroyed most of the monasteries, and killed millions of Tibetans. You see the cruelty of the China toward minorities.
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