Siddhartha

A simple story about a young Indian Brahmin (Kapoor), based on Hesse's famed novel. Kapoor goes searching for the meaning of life, falling in with holy men and eventually encountering someone who might be the Gautama Buddha. Kapoor becomes a wealthy merchant and finally finds peace on a riverboat after being introduced to sensual pleasures by a courtesan. This, a film of frequent lyrical beauty, was wonderfully filmed by Ingmar Bergman's regular cameraman, Nykvist. However, the film fails to capture the essence of Hesse's book, try though it may. It is more a series of filmed events than an interpretation of the story. Shot on location in India by American director...