The film 'Kundun' isn't as I expected. However, from a cinematographical / directorial p.o.v., it was awesome. Yes, the acting was fine and the story was good, but Tibet really lends itself to all those panoramas, and the way Scorsese kept on at us with all the tricks he uses..... This film was superb in its filminess, and I think is a great example of how a film should be made.
Reviews
3 Reviews
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
(1996)
Poignant and painful
10 November 1998
This movie was stunning. Foreign films are usually seen as so difficult to grasp and inaccessible, but this managed to hold everything together. At two and a bit hours, it sometimes seems to go on, but the finale is worth it. People laughed and people cried. It was beautiful.
Burnt by the Sun
(1994)
Powerful
27 October 1998
I saw this film in St. Petersburg, Russia with a group of Russian friends, some of whom were old enough to have parents affected by what the film deals with. All I can say is that I have not seen many films that deal with such brutal subject matter so powerfully (Schindler's List, maybe the first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan). Anyway, this film is top notch and deserved the Best Foreign Film Oscar it received. Marvellous.
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