Seven Years In Tibet
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- Synopsis
- Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight this adaptation of the memoir by Heinrich Harrer....
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- Starring
- Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa... See more
- Director(s)
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Distributor(s)
- Sony
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 134 min.
Critic Reviews
Beyond his struggles with an unwieldy accent and the screenplay's hokum, Mr. Pitt gives a sincere if labored performance enhanced by a sense of genuine struggle.Read the full review
French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, who brought his interest in self-discovery and untamed places to Quest for Fire, The Lover, and the IMAX 3-D film Wings of Courage, is at his best re-creating the serene exoticism of the Dalai Lama's Tibet. But the spark of the holy that the Dalai Lama lights in Harrer flickers only fitfully in all the wind in this production.Read the full review
Seven Years in Tibet is an ambitious and beautiful movie with much to interest the patient viewer, but it makes the common mistake of many films about travelers and explorers: It is more concerned with their adventures than with what they discover.Read the full review
