Film review: The Unwinking Gaze: The Inside Story of the Dalai Lama's Struggle for Tibet
Published Date:
25 May 2008
By SIOBHAN SYNNOT
THE UNWINKING GAZE: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE DALAI LAMA'S STRUGGLE FOR TIBET (15)
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Documentary maker Joshua Dugdale spent 18 months filming the life of the Dalai Lama and observing the painstaking efforts to engage the Chinese in negotiations towards what he calls the "meaningful autonomy" of Tibet.
In this austere portrait of a born diplomat, it's the topics on which the ever-cautious Dalai declines to comment that prove the most revealing. Otherwise His Holiness, once described by Rupert Murdoch as "a political monk in Gucci shoes", remains an inscrutable personality.
Dugdale keeps his focus on the political rather than the personal, and, disappointingly, not once in the 18 months does Richard Gere ever drop by.
• Belmont Picturehouse, Aberdeen and Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh
The full article contains 139 words and appears in Scotland On Sunday newspaper.
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Last Updated:
23 May 2008 5:12 PM
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Source:
Scotland On Sunday
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Location:
Scotland
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