Unfortunately this was the Tibetan thing...lama, dalai lama and all that. The filmmaker's father escaped to Italy in 1959 and surfed the Western interest in his superstitions into a lifetime of travel and celebrity. This whilst he ignored his family and son...whose film this is.
I find this adoption of another culture's ignorance deeply depressing...nonsense doesn't become profound by being exotic. The sight of these glowing European faces entranced by the drivel these people peddle leads me to despair for the future of humanity.
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