Synopsis
Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
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Cast
- Werner HerzogNarrator (voice)
- Tenzin GyatsoSelf
- Lama Lhundup WoeserSelf
- Takna Jigme SangpoSelf
- Matthieu RicardSelf
- Tenzin DhargyeSelf
- Ven. GesheSelf
- Manfred KlellSelf
- Chungdak D. KorenHimself
- Thupten Tsering MukhimsarSelf
Recommendations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
Riveting and unique. - 75
New York Post
Call it a spiritual Woodstock. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mesmerizing documentary. - 70
The New York Times
The movie might as well have been called "An Immersion in Tibetan Buddhism." With minimal explanation, it puts you right in the center. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
Mesmerizing. - 50
Chicago Reader
Atypically lame, this is more for spiritual tourists than admirers of "Aguirre: The Wrath of God." - 50
Variety
Taken strictly as a docu about a key Buddhist ritual, Wheel of Time is a perfectly pleasant, educational film, featuring pretty pictures, exotic locations and interview footage with the Dalai Lama himself. As a Werner Herzog film, it's flat and disappointing. - 50
Village Voice
Patient and fascinated, but never succumbing to abstraction, Wheel of Time can be seen as the middle installment of a trilogy against nature.
