A refreshing, informative and worthy documentary.
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10/30/07
10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (2007)
77 %
Reviews Counted: 13 Fresh: 10 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Synopsis: In this documentary, director Rick Ray has the opportunity to ask the Dalai Lama questions that directly relate to society's current issues. [More]
Genre: Special Interest, Special Interest, Documentary
Starring: Dalai Lama, The XIV
Reviews
1 - 13 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Part history lesson and part profile, the film presents a concise, cogent account of recent Tibetan history as well as an engrossing onscreen conversation with one of the world's great spiritual leaders.
10/26/07
Top Critic
10 Questions works extremely well as an introduction to the Dalai Lama and offers a tantalizing peek at the dynamic and even mischievous personality of this influential man.
10/26/07
[Ray's] particular interest in Asia serves him well as he explores the Dalai Lama’s world.
10/12/07
“10 Questions for the Dalai Lama” is a tedious title for an anything-but-tedious film that expertly merges the mystical and the mundane.
08/31/07
Top Critic
The 11th question would be: Does a TV-grade travelogue followed by a halfway-decent Q&A warrant a theatrical release?
08/28/07
There have been several documentaries about the Dalai Lama, but few have done a better job of packaging the Tibetan religious leader's circumstances, both historical and current, along with his philosophies, than 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama.
07/30/07
[Director] Ray interjects observations about his own travels like a backup musician who thinks he's the frontman. A little less cowbell, please.
07/19/07
The film never rises above the spiritual or intellectual level of a TV news anchor. It is a dispiriting film to watch, if you have any real interest in the subject.
07/19/07
One comes away from 10 Questions emboldened, energized, and sadder -- aware that peace remains so radical a concept that most of us aren't yet worthy of it.
06/22/07
A nicely crafted, economic (it's only 85 minutes) introduction to that most eminent of men, the spiritual leader and deposed head of state of Tibet.
06/21/07
A slam-dunk for history classes -- informative and challenging, touching on issues of free speech, modernity, democracy, and globalism.
06/01/07
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