Siddhartha (re-release)

Name: Siddhartha (re-release)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Released: September 27, 2002
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 80

2002

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: September 27, 2002 | R

Summary: A re-release of the 1972 adaptation of Herman Hesse's novel about a young Brahmin seeking a more meaningful way of life.

Director: Conrad Rooks

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery

Rating: R

Runtime: 89 min

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Phil Hall

An extraordinary achievement on all possible levels. Read full review

New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf

A beautiful and timeless achievement, Conrad Rooks' 1972 adaptation of Herman Hesse's appropriation of East Indian mythology still entrances.

Ed Halter

Sven Nykvist's golden-hued cinematography perfectly suits Hesse's mind-expanding narrative of Buddhist enlightenment. Read full review

Janice Page

Apologies to Conrad Rooks, but the only reason his 1972 film, Siddhartha, is getting a 30th-anniversary rerelease is the appeal of seeing Sven Nykvist's amazing cinematography restored to its full splendor. Read full review

Shawn Levy

Some aspects of Siddhartha seem terribly dated: the '60s-ish nude sequences, the wispy music, the big-eyed earnest acting. But it is a lushly beautiful film. Shooting largely in natural light, Nykvist creates a poetry more beautiful than Hesse's prose and as profound as the author's message. Read full review

Staff (Not credited)

Rooks has chosen to give this a surface elegance which sometimes robs the film of its needed earthiness and sensuality in its love angle and more robustness in detailing the vagaries of social aspects and values at the time. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not credited)

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. Read full review

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ThomasH.

Oct 2, 2007

I am so happy this was re-released. The acting is stunning and the music waltzes you through the scenes as if by magic. Hermann Hesse would be proud.

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