2009PG

Unmistaken Child

Name: Unmistaken Child
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2009-06-07
Rating: 6.6

In search of a lifetime

Documentary1h 42m

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81%

Tomatometer

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88%

Popcornmeter

6.6

TMDB

Storyline

In Nepal, a venerable monk, Geshe Lama Konchog, dies and one of his disciples, a youthful monk named Tenzin Zopa, searches for his master's reincarnation. The film follows his search to the Tsum Valley where he finds a young boy of the right age who uncannily responds to Konchog's possessions. Is this the reincarnation of the master? After the boy passes several tests, Tenzin takes him to meet the Dali Lama. Will the parents agree to let the boy go to the monastery, and, if so, how will the child respond? Central to the film is the relationship the child develops with Tenzin.

Details

DirectorNati Baratz

ReleasedJun 7, 2009

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

6 fresh · 1 rotten

Critics consensus

“Nati Baratz's thoughtful, beautifully filmed documentary is a moving testament to the power of faith.”

81% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Rick Groen

RTGlobe and MailOct 2, 2009

This documentary is only partly a story of the chosen one; mainly, and more intriguingly, it's a chronicle of the choosing one, of the nervous young monk charged with the job of leading the search party.

Andrea Gronvall

RTChicago ReaderOct 2, 2009

Films that address faith and love as eloquently as this moving 2008 documentary are rare.

Greg Quill

RTToronto StarOct 2, 2009

The film is fascinating on every level -- as a portrait of a willing servant in a complex, powerful and inscrutable religious system and a feast of spectacular sights and unusual mundane events in a corner of the world rarely exposed to prying eyes.

Dennis Schwartz

RTDennis Schwartz Movie ReviewsFeb 13, 2010

Visually stunning and moving religious documentary that gives the outsider a rare eyewitness report on the four-year search for the rebirth of a Tibetan lama in Nepal.