Little Buddha (1993)
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
After the death of Lama Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist monks find three children — one American and two Nepalese — who may be the rebirth of their great teacher.
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As the film proceeds, the favoring of mainstream movie references extends to Bertolucci's own oeuvre: the Paris flat reminds me of settings in The Conformist, the incest evokes Before the Revolution and Luna, Theo's Maoist baggage takes us back to The Last Emperor, a desert tent in the siblings' flat alludes to The Sheltering Sky, and Matthew's espousal of nonviolence suggests Little Buddha.
It is the kind of small art story that Bertolucci seems to excel in more than with some of his more recent commercial ventures (“Little Buddha”/”The Last Emperor”).
After the slight but storybook-gorgeous slice of fairy-tale sweetness of Little Buddha and the misguided mix of first-love naivete and peekaboo flashes of pretty young flesh of Stealing Beauty, the oblique Besieged is a return to earlier concerns in an austere, stripped-down style.