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Little Buddha

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

Release: 1993
Runtime: 123
Country: France, Liechtenstein, U.K.
Language: English

Drawing on Buddhist history to weave a metaphor about the tragedy of Tibetans in exile, Little Buddha is Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning follow-up to The Sheltering Sky. In this religious tour-de-fource, a Buddhist monk, Lama Norbu (Ying Ruocheng), believes that a 10-year-old American boy, Jesse (Alex Wiesendanger), is the reincarnation of his spiritual teacher, Lama Dorje. Jesse's father, Dean (Chris Isaak, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me), and mother, Lisa (Bridget Fonda, Jackie Brown), are skeptical, but following his business partner's suicide, a transformed Dean relents and allows his son to travel to Bhutan. However, there are two other children whom the monk thinks may also be the reincarnation of Lama Dorje. Featuring Keanu Reeves as Siddhartha.

Product Extras :
  • New Audio Commentary by Film Critic Bilge Ebiri
  • Archival Interview with Director Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Archival Documentary: The Making of Little Buddha
  • Archival Interview with Producer Jeremy Thomas
  • Theatrical Trailer
Publish Date : 2025-05-05

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“A gorgeous, grandly presumptuous spectacle that really deserves to be seen... A crazily mesmerizing pop artifact."

- Janet Maslin, New York Times

"Magical, mind-broadening entertainment."

- Kenneth M. Chanko, Entertainment Weekly

"An extraordinary achievement by a master director."

- KARL SPRINGER, Los Angeles Times

"A beautiful, metaphysical epic. Little Buddha has the wide-eyed, innocent feel of a fable."

- Joe Brown, The Washington Post

“Bernardo Bertolucci’s epic saga of the origins and modern vitality of the world’s largest religion.”

- Leonard Klady, Variety

“Extraordinary to see Keanu Reeves in Bertolucci's epic, elegiac study of Buddhism."

- Paul Howlett, The Guardian

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