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Windows are broken and paths half paved in the ramshackle little town of Dharamsala, India, where the Dalai Lama lives. The absolute spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet still has to drive 10 hours over roads crazy with scooters and cows every time he needs to take a flight (from New Delhi, 300 miles to the south). And when you call his tiny office, you usually hear that "all circuits are busy"--or the five-digit number changed yesterday, or, amid a blizzard of static, you get cut off in mid-sentence, the only small consolation being that...
...this makeshift exile center come moviemakers, camera crews and seekers from around the world, and from it, in the months before I returned to see him, the Dalai Lama had visited all five major continents, in his near desperate attempt to save occupied Tibet before it dies...
...PLAYERS] All-Tibetan cast in Dalai Lama biopic; dir. Martin Scorsese...
...YEAR'S RESOLUTION] Prepare for Tibet taboo in Hollywood. (If Brad Pitt couldn't sell the Dalai Lama...
...gorgeous, half-successful epic gives much-needed public visibility to the tragic modern history of Tibet, but opts for glossy formulaic packaging over genuine emotional resonance, even in the central relationship between Brad Pitt's Austrian mountaineer and the young Dalai Lama. Pitt is ludicrously out of place--a Hollywood heartthrob trying to look spiritual and attempting a dreadful accent. The film actually becomes more dramatically compelling as his character fades in prominence, though it's amusing to watch his narcissism get deflated...