Little Buddha

Little Buddha is a 1993 ItalianFrenchBritish drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda and Keanu Reeves as Prince Siddhartha the Buddha before his enlightenment. Produced by Bertoluccis usual collaborator, Jeremy Thomas, it marked the teams return to the East after The Last Emperor.

Jesse is fascinated with the monks and their way of life, but his parents, Dean Chris Isaak and Lisa Bridget Fonda, are wary, and that wariness turns into nearhostility when Norbu announces that he wants to take Jesse back with him to Bhutan to be tested. Dean changes his mind however, when one of his close friends and colleagues commits suicide because he went broke. Dean then decides to travel to Bhutan with Jesse. In Nepal, two children who are also candidates for the rebirth are encountered, Raju Rajuh Lal and Gita Greishma Makar Singh.Gradually, over the course of the movie, first Jesses mother and then Lama Norbu tell the life story of Prince Siddhartha, reading from a book that Lama Norbu has given to Jesse. ........

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