Little Buddha

Screen idol Keanu Reeves plays the baby Buddha in Bernardo Bertolucci's beautiful, metaphysical epic. A Buddhist history, a story about the tragedy of Tibetans in exile, a religious tour de force, the film follows two monks from Bhutan as they travel to Seattle to find a reincarnated Buddhist master amidst the back story of the Buddha's search for enlightenment. a crazily mesmerising pop artefact that ranks alongside Herman Hesse's novel Siddhartha echoes some of Mr. Bertolucci's own wide screen exoticism, as captured most recently by "The Last Emperor" and "The Sheltering Sky. Photographed stunningly by Vittorio Storaro, accompanied by Ryuichi Sakamoto's powerfully insinuating score, this film works in genuinely mysterious ways. The New York Times.