The only thing touching and deeply moving about the film is Ama. For the rest it lacks in vision, poorly executed filming. At time it drags and often we wonder why did french director leave his extremely violent and meaningless fiction films and headed for India. Its not even soul-searching story. What is he trying to say? Why promote someone who does not believe in promotion. Approach to the character and its surrounding is bit artificial. The film does not have any real point of view. Its real pity because faith could have been a wonderful subject to explore. Maybe Pan Nalin or Kim Ki Duk would have done the justice to the subject. Why create a middleman and non-human element like film to know Ama, when she herself believes in human contact. I would advise to save your 8 Euros...
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Samsara
(2001)
First Best thing that happened to me in the year 2006
1 January 2006
Normally I would be with hundreds celebrating the arrival of the new year. Last night I decided to be alone with SAMSARA. When the film ended at 1h40am, I was in year 2006 -transformed. A masterpiece about choices that we all have to make sooner or later. I've spent hours surfing net on SAMSARA, reading reactions of people from Brazil to Bombay to Bucharest to Bangladesh. How wonderful so many people are united by SAMSARA. The film opens up your heart and soul. I am normally too much an intellectual when it comes to liking a film. But this one just took me like a storm -mesmerizing cinematography, soothing sound track (one of the best sound design ever!), soul-stirring landscapes and above all masterly written and directed by Pan Nalin -whoever he maybe. It is one of the most powerful first feature I have ever seen. I now eagerly await Nalin's next feature VALLEY OF FLOWERS. Meanwhile for anyone who has not yet seen this movie I say to them just go for it with open mind, leave your issues behind and just dive into SAMSARA...
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